MEDFORD - G : USA - MA

*Location:

   Grace Episcopal Church 
   160 High Street 
   Medford, Massachusetts, USA

*Player:

   Paula Hiltz 
   T: (781)391-3847

*Contact:

   Grace Church 
   160 High Street 
   Medford, MA  02155-3818 
   T: (781)396-7215  or  -0362 
   F: (781)391-4740 
   E: grcchurch@aol.com 
   E: rector@gracemedford.org  [rector]

*Schedule:

   Sundays; automatically at noon and 
   evening daily.

*Remarks:

   Made by Wm.Blake & Co., Boston, MA. 
   Added semitone assumed to be flat 7th.
   Largest bell given by the town to be 
   used as a fire bell, but never was. 
   Oldest extant church designed by 
   Henry Hobson Richardson.

*Technical data:

   Electric-keyboard chime of  9 bells
   Pitch of heaviest bell is F  in the middle octave
   Transposition is down 2 semitone(s)
   Keyboard range:     G G   /    NONE  
   There is one added semitone
   The whole instrument was installed in 1873
     with bells made by Hooper/Blake
   Year of latest technical information source is 2001

*Links:

The church Website has a picture of the church on the home page, and some information about the chime on the History page.

To see a locator map, click here: or here: or here:
Also check our own Map Use Hints.

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).

Index to all tower bell instruments in MA.

*Status:

   This page was built from the database on  8-Sep-02
   based on textual data last updated on 2002/08/30
   and on technical data last updated on 2002/07/26

Explanations of page format and keyboard range are available.

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