*Location:
St.Patrick's RC Church 282 Suffolk Street Lowell, Massachusetts, USA
*Player:
Jim Fitzgerald 850 Princeton Boulevard Lowell, MA 01851-2017 H: (978)441-9259
*Contact:
St.Patrick's Rectory 282 Suffolk Street Lowell, MA 01854-4250 T: (978)459-0561 F: (978)446-0266 - or - Dave McKeon, Archivist 1 Benrus Street Nashua, NH 03060-5322 H: (603)888-6155
*Remarks:
Original chime by Stuckstede was made prior to 1896, for Rev.M.O'Brien, Rector; those bells destroyed by fire in 1904; swinging bells were C,E,G,C.
*Technical data:
Traditional chime (chimestand) of 11 bells
Pitch of heaviest bell is D in the middle octave
Transposition is nil (concert pitch)
Keyboard range: D E / ----
There are two added semitones
The whole instrument was installed in 1906
with bells made by Meneely/Troy
Prior history:
In 18__, the complete instrument was installed
with 17 bells made by the maker cited in Remarks above
(0 bells remain from that work.)
Year of latest technical information source is 1994
*Links:
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This map also shows the location of the chime at
St.Anne's Church.
Where the initial stage of this work lies in the sequence of output of the first Stuckstede bellfoundry. Where the final stage of 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 9-Sep-02 based on textual data last updated on 2002/09/09 and on technical data last updated on 2001/08/03
Explanations of page format and keyboard range are available.
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