WILMINGTON - W : USA - DE

*Location:

   Westminster Presbyterian Church (PCUSA)
   Pennsylvania Avenue & N. Rodney Street 
   Wilmington, Delaware, USA

*Player:

   Rosemary H. Bradley 
   392 Hobart Drive 
   Greenbridge, 
     Newark, DE  19713-1619
   H: (302)738-6678 
   E: violin1@aol.com

*Contact:

   Westminster Church 
   1504 West 13th Street
   Wilmington, DE  19806-4223 
   T: (302)654-5214   F: (302)654-5706

*Remarks:

   P&F bells added 1978, 1979, 1980.

*Technical data:

   Traditional chime (baton keyboard) of 20 bells
   Pitch of heaviest bell is D# in the middle octave
   Transposition is down 1 semitone(s)
   Keyboard range:     E C#  /    NONE  
   There are two missing bass semitones
   The instrument was enlarged in 1980
     with 10 bells by Petit & Fritsen
   Prior history:
     In 1912, the instrument was begun with 10 bells
       by McShane     
   Year of latest technical information source is 1992

Additional information on the technical history of this instrument can be found in a database printout.

*Links:

The church Website no longer has a picture of the building, and this chime is barely mentioned.

To see a locator map, click here: or here:
Also check our own Map Use Hints.
These maps also show the location of the chimes at Grace Methodist Church and Trinity Episcopal Church and the non-traditional carillon at the duPont Estate (for which zooming out is needed).

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

Index to North American baton-keyboard chimes.

Other chimes which qualify as mini-carillons.

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

Index to all tower bell instruments in DE.

*Status:

   This page was built from the database on 21-Mar-05
   based on textual data last updated on 2004/08/31
   and on technical data last updated on 2005/03/21

Explanations of page format and keyboard range are available.

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