NEWTON - G : USA - MA

   The Eldridge Chime

*Location:

   Grace Episcopal Church 
   Church and Eldredge Streets 
   Newton Corner, 
     Newton, Massachusetts, USA

*Player:

   Brad Wright, Music Director

*Contact:

   Grace Church 
   76 Eldredge Street 
   Newton, MA  02158-2098 
   T: (617)244-3221   F: (617)969-9036 
   E: grace-ch@ma.ultranet.com

*Remarks:

   Made by Wm.Blake & Co., Boston, MA. 
   Added semitone is flat 7th.

*Technical data:

   Traditional chime (chimestand) of  9 bells
   Pitch of heaviest bell is E  in the middle octave
   Transposition is nil (concert pitch)
   Keyboard range:     E E   /    ----  
   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 nice color photo of the building on the home page; it's evident that the chime was original to the building. But there is no information about the bells elsewhere.

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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 2002/07/20
   and on technical data last updated on 2002/07/20

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