LAWRENCE : USA - MA

*Location:

   St.Mary of the Assumption RC Church
   Hampshire Street at Haverhill Street
   Lawrence, Massachusetts, USA
   LL: N 42.70970, W 71.16734

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*Player:

   Randall (Randy) Cote, Organist
   T: (603)898-1915

*Contact:

   St.Mary's Rectory & Parish Office
   205 Hampshire Street
   Lawrence, MA  01841-3698
   T: (978)685-1111   F: (978)686-5555
   E: info@stmaryassumption-lawrence.org

*Schedule:

   (unknown)

*Remarks:

   Made by Wm.Blake & Co., Boston, MA;
   added semitones = sharp 4th, minor 6th,
   flat 7th, sharp octave; all have custom
   inscriptions.

*Technical data:

   Electric-keyboard chime of 16 bells
   Pitch of heaviest bell is D  in the middle octave
   Transposition is unknown
   Keyboard range:     ----  /    ----  
   There are four added semitones
   The whole instrument was installed in 1874
     with bells made by Hooper/Blake
   Year of latest technical information source is 1992

*Links:

The parish Website has a tiny drawing of the building on the home page.  The bells are described in two paragraphs in the midst of a long Parish History page (under About Our Parish).

Where this work lies in the sequence of output of the Hooper/Blake bellfoundry.

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

Why this chime was a milestone in North American chime history (1874).

Index to all tower bell instruments in MA.

*Status:

   This page was built from the database on 15-May-10
   based on textual data last updated on 2010/05/14
   and on technical data last updated on 2010/05/14

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