BARRINGTON : USA - IL

   Bard Memorial Bells

*Location:

   St.Michael's Episcopal Church
   South Dundee Avenue
     above West Hillside Avenue
   Barrington, Illinois, USA
   LL: N 42.14666, W 88.14038

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*Player:

   (unknown)

*Contact:

   St.Michael's Church
   647 South Dundee Avenue
   Barrington, IL  60010-4299
   T: (847)381-2323   F: (847)381-3517
   E: alisonb@hotmail.com
      nholmes@stmichaelsbarrington.org

*Schedule:

   (unknown)

*Remarks:

   Keyboard at organ

*Technical data:

   Electric-keyboard chime of 12 bells
   Pitch of heaviest bell is A  in the middle octave
   Transposition is up  9 semitone(s)
   Keyboard range:     C --  /    ----  
   The arrangement of tones and semitones is unknown.
   The whole instrument was installed in 1955
     with bells made by Petit & Fritsen
   Year of latest technical information source is unknown

*Links:

The church Website has a photo of the building and its unusual belfry.  The bells are mentioned on the About Us page.

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).
Ranking among all North American chimes by weight (pitch).
Ranking among all North American chimes by year of completion.

Index to all tower bell instruments in IL.

*Status:

   This page was built from the database on 26-Dec-11
   based on textual data last updated on 2010/08/28
   and on technical data last updated on 1992/05/18

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