BOSTON - FCC/3 : USA - MA

*Location:

   East tower
   First Church of Christ, Scientist
     (Christian Science Mother Church)
   Huntington Avenue near Mass. Avenue
   Boston, Massachusetts, USA
   LL: N 42.34456, W 71.08450

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*Player:

   Judith A. Huenneke, Head Chimer
   E: huennekej@csps.com

*Contact:

   First Church of Christ,
     Scientist
   175 Huntington Avenue, A-153
   Boston, MA  02115-3187
   T: (617)450-3435  or  -2000
   E: crowleye@csps.com

*Schedule:

   Summer concert series, 1900-1930 on
   Fridays in July and August.

*Remarks:

   Keyboard may be 4 octaves.

*Technical data:

   Traditional chime (baton keyboard) of 18 bells
   Pitch of heaviest bell is D  in the middle octave
   Transposition is unknown
   Keyboard range:     ----* /    ----  
   There are no missing bass semitones
   The whole instrument was installed in 1984
     with bells made by Eijsbouts   
   Year of latest technical information source is 1992

*Links:

The Website of the Mother Church no longer has any photo which views the building and bell tower from the east.  There is a small photo on the Activities page, showing two low west towers, one of which houses the older chime designated FCC/2 in our database.

Building photos from Emporis Buildings (not showing this tower as of Aug.'07)
(Also see our Emporis Advice.)

The tubular chime which originally occupied this belfry (FCC/1) is described on the TowerBells Website.

Where this work lies in the sequence of output of the Eijsbouts bellfoundry, in this region and in the world.

Index to North American baton-keyboard chimes.

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 MA, including the other chime which is still in this building.

*Status:

   This page was built from the database on 16-Aug-07
   based on textual data last updated on 2007/07/04
   and on technical data last updated on 1992/12/31

Explanations of page format and keyboard range are available.

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