SPENCER : USA - IA

*Location:

   Grace United Methodist Church
   2nd Avenue West at West 3rd Street
   Spencer, Iowa, USA
   LL: N 43.1403, W 95.1472

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*Contact:

   Grace Church Office
   311 - 2nd Avenue West
   Spencer, IA  51301-4127
   T: (712)262-5970   F: (712)262-0344
   E: kayclancy /@ spencergumc DOTcom

*Schedule:

   Automatic at noon daily

*Remarks:

   Includes 4 Meneely bells, date unknown,
   probably from Watervliet foundry.

*Technical data:

   Electric-automatic chime of 14 bells
   Pitch of heaviest bell is unknown
   Transposition is unknown
   Keyboard range:     ----  /    ----  
   The whole instrument was installed in 1968
     with bells made by Petit & Fritsen (except for 4)
   Year of latest technical information source is 2008

*Links:

On the church Website, the home page has a small clickable photo of the church and bell tower.  A different photo is on the History page (which mentions the bells but gives no details).

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).

Index to all tower bell instruments in IA.

*Status:

   This page was built from the database on 15-Apr-08
   based on textual data last updated on 2008/04/09
   and on technical data last updated on 2008/04/09

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