CHICAGO - STJCH : USA - IL

*Location:

   St.James Catholic Church 
   South Wabash Avenue near 29th Street 
   Chicago, Illinois, USA
   LL: N 41.84091, W 87.62542

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*Player:

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*Contact:

   St.James Rectory 
   2942 South Wabash Avenue 
   Chicago, IL  60616-3227 
   T: (312)842-1919   F: (312)842-3612
   E: FrEdward@StJamesOnWabash.com

*Schedule:

   Not used; almost unplayable.

*Remarks:

   Chimestand originally had pedals for 
   all "white" notes (C G 12). 
   This is the heaviest and second-largest
   American-made chime, besides being 
   one of only three such that are 
   fully chromatic.

*Technical data:

   Traditional chime (chimestand) of 20 bells
   Pitch of heaviest bell is C  in the middle octave
   Transposition is nil (concert pitch)
   Keyboard range:     C G   /    C -- 1
   There are no missing bass semitones
   There is no practice console
   The whole instrument was installed in 1895
     with bells made by McShane     
   Year of latest technical information source is 1993

*Links:

The church Website has a photo of the tower on the home page.  The History page (under Parish Life) mentions the installation of the bells, both in the chronological outline and in the text below.

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

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 IL.

*Status:

   This page was built from the database on 13-Feb-07
   based on textual data last updated on 2007/01/22
   and on technical data last updated on 1993/06/29

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