PALOS HEIGHTS : USA - IL

*Location:

   The Evangelical Lutheran Church
     of the Good Shepherd (ELCA)
   South McCarthy Road at Oak Ridge Drive
   Palos Heights, Illinois, USA
   LL: N 41.66534, W 87.81118

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*Player:

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*Contact:

   Good Shepherd Lutheran Church
   7800 West McCarthy Road
   Palos Heights, IL  60463-1299
   T: (708)448-4170   F: (708)448-5884
   E: mailbox@good-shepherd-church.com

*Schedule:

   (unknown)

*Technical data:

   Electric-keyboard chime of 14 bells
   Pitch of heaviest bell is unknown
   Transposition is unknown
   Keyboard range:     ----  /    ----  
   The whole instrument was installed in unknown year
     with bells made by an unknown maker
   Year of latest technical information source is 2000

*Links:

The church Website has a small photo of the building, but it's difficult to see the bells hung in inverted order on the side of the tall stone pillar at left.

Where this work lies in the sequence of output of unknown bellfoundries, 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 18-Jul-09
   based on textual data last updated on 2009/07/10
   and on technical data last updated on 2002/03/13

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