ATLANTA - SS : USA - GA

*Location:

   Sandy Springs United Methodist Church
   Mount Vernon Highway NE,
     west of Sandy Springs Circle
   Atlanta, Georgia, USA
   LL: N 33.92333, W 84.38440
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*Player:

   (unknown)

*Contact:

   Sandy Springs Methodist Church
   86 Mount Vernon Highway NE
   Atlanta, GA  30328-3826
   T: (404)255-1181

*Schedule:

   (unknown)

*Remarks:

   Bells hung in groups of five atop three
   separate towers of different heights.

*Technical data:

   Electric-keyboard chime of 15 bells
   Pitch of heaviest bell is unknown
   Transposition is unknown
   Keyboard range:     ----  /    ----  
   The whole instrument was installed in unknown year
     with bells made by vanBergen   
   Year of latest technical information source is 1994

*Links:

The church Website has an artists's rendering of the building, showing how the bells are distributed among three separate towers.

Where this work lies in the sequence of output of the vanBergen 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 GA.

*Status:

   This page was built from the database on 16-Apr-09
   based on textual data last updated on 2009/04/13
   and on technical data last updated on 1995/04/01


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