SAN JUAN CAPISTRANO : USA - CA

*Location:

   Mission Basilica San Juan Capistrano
     (new church)
   Camino Capistrano at Acjachema Street
   San Juan Capistrano, California, USA
   LL: N 33.50439, W 117.66397

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*Player:

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*Contact:

   Mission San Juan Capistrano Church
   31522 Camino Capistrano
   San Juan Capistrano, CA  92675-2650
   T: (949)248-2000  or  234-1360
   F: (948)248-2008
   E: missionbasilicaparish@
        missionparish.org
      matthewgray@cox.net

*Schedule:

   (unknown)

*Remarks:

   Bells swing in openings of 2 vertically
   stacked bellchambers;
   notes C, D#, E, G#, A#, C, D#, F.

*Technical data:

   Chime-sized instrument with action described in Remarks above of  8 bells
   Pitch of heaviest bell is C  in the middle octave
   Transposition is unknown
   Keyboard range:     ----  /    ----  
   The arrangement of tones and/or semitones
     is non-standard; see Remarks above.
   The whole instrument was installed in 1983
     with bells made by Petit & Fritsen
   Year of latest technical information source is 1994

*Links:

Both the Parish Website and the Mission Website include a photo of the four old Spanish bells from the old church, now hung in a "bell wall."  A small photo of the new church, which was designed after the long-fallen Stone Church of the original mission, can be found on the Contact Us page of the Parish Website.

Where this work lies in the sequence of output of the Petit & Fritsen bellfoundry, in this region and in the world.

Ranking among all North American chimes by size (number of bells).
Ranking among all North American chimes by year of completion.

Index to all tower bell instruments in CA.

*Status:

   This page was built from the database on 10-Nov-09
   based on textual data last updated on 2009/11/03
   and on technical data last updated on 1995/04/01

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