FORT DODGE : USA - IA

*Location:

   First United Methodist Church 
   1st Avenue North at Tenth Street 
   Fort Dodge, Iowa, USA

*Contact:

   First Methodist Church 
   127 North 10th Street 
   Fort Dodge, IA  50501-3989 
   T: (515)576-7536   F: (515)576-7587 
   E: worship@fumcfortdodge.org 
   W: www.fumcfortdodge.org

*Technical data:

   Chime-sized instrument or collection of 11 bells
   Pitch of heaviest bell is D# in the middle octave
   Transposition is unknown
   Keyboard range:     ----  /    ----  
   The whole instrument was installed in 1915
     with bells made by McShane     
   Year of latest technical information source is 1992

*Links:

The church Website has a small clickable photo of the building, with the top of the tower partly visible. A History page mentions the memorial gift of the chime.

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Where this work lies in the sequence of output of the McShane bellfoundry.

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

Index to all tower bell instruments in IA.

*Status:

   This page was built from the database on 11-Mar-02
   based on textual data last updated on 2001/07/30
   and on technical data last updated on 1993/01/01

Explanations of page format and keyboard range are available.

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