BRAINTREE : USA - MA

*Location:

   First Congregational Church (NACCC) 
   Elm Street 
   Braintree, Massachusetts, USA

*Player:

   Robert DeRegis, Music Director 
   91 Bradford Street 
   Everett, MA  02149-1316 

*Contact:

   First Congregational Church 
   12 Elm Street 
   Braintree, MA  02184-3291 
   T: (781)843-3616  or  -5211

*Remarks:

   Independent keyboard in choir loft 
   transposes from C; organ connection is 
   non-transposing in G.

*Technical data:

   Electric-keyboard chime of 10 bells
   Pitch of heaviest bell is F  in the middle octave
   Transposition is up  5 semitone(s)
   Keyboard range:     C C   /    NONE  
   The whole instrument was installed in 1925
     with bells made by Meneely/Troy
   Year of latest technical information source is 1994

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Where this work lies in the sequence of output of the Meneely (Troy) bellfoundry.

Ranking among all North American chimes by size (number of bells).

Index to all tower bell instruments in MA.

*Status:

   This page was built from the database on 12-Sep-02
   based on textual data last updated on 2002/09/12
   and on technical data last updated on 2001/07/27

Explanations of page format and keyboard range are available.

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