NEWTON CENTER : USA - MA

*Location:

   "America" Tower 
   First Baptist Church in Newton (ABC)
   Beacon Street at Center Street 
   Newton Center, Massachusetts, USA

*Player:

   Bruce Herrick, Music Director 
   T: (617)267-3148

*Contact:

   First Baptist Church in Newton (ABC)
   848 Beacon Street 
   Newton Center, MA  02459-1801 
   T: (617)244-2997 
   E: pastor@fbcnewton.org

*Remarks:

   Bells are a memorial to Rev.Samuel F. 
   Smith, minister here 1842-54 and the 
   author of "America".

*Technical data:

   Traditional chime (chimestand) of 11 bells
   Pitch of heaviest bell is D# in the middle octave
   Transposition is down 1 semitone(s)
   Keyboard range:     E --  /    ----  
   The whole instrument was installed in 1898
     with bells made by Meneely/Wvlt
   Year of latest technical information source is 2001

*Links:

The church Website has a drawing of the building on the home page, and mentions the bells on the History page.

To see a locator map, click here: or here: or here:
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Where this work lies in the sequence of output of the Meneely (Watervliet) 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 2002/09/09

Explanations of page format and keyboard range are available.

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