KENT : USA - CT

*Location:

   St.Joseph's Chapel
   Kent School
   Macedonia Road (Conn. Hwy 341)
   Kent, Connecticut, USA
   LL: N 41.72594, W 73.48429

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*Contact:

   Thomas W. Holcombe, Music Director
     and Tower Captain
   Kent School
   Kent, CT  06757
   H: (860)927-4389
   E: holcombet/@/kent-school DOTedu
   - or -
   Kent School
   PO Box 2006
   Kent, CT  06757-0640
   T: (800)538-5368  -or-  (860)927-6111
   F: (860)927-6109

*Schedule:

   Practice irregular.

*Remarks:

   Rope guides added early 1992.
   Bells dated 1931, but may have been
   cast in 1930 for installation in 1931.

*Technical data:

   Ring of 10 bells
   Pitch of heaviest bell is D  in the middle octave
   Transposition is not applicable
   Keyboard range:     ROPE  /    NONE  
   There are no added semitones
   The whole instrument was installed in 1931
     with bells made by Whitechapel 
   Year of latest technical information source is 2000

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Where this work lies in the sequence of output of the Whitechapel bellfoundry, in this region and in the world.

Ranking among all North American rings by pitch/weight.
Ranking among all North American rings by size (number of bells).
Ranking among all North American rings by year of completion.

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

Index to all tower bell instruments in CT.

*Status:

   This page was built from the database on 26-Apr-08
   based on textual data last updated on 2008/04/22
   and on technical data last updated on 2001/04/27

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