SPRINGFIELD -- CT : USA - MA

*Location:

   Clock Tower
   Court Street, between City Hall and
     Symphony Hall, on the green
   Springfield, Massachusetts, USA
   LL: N 42.10109, W 72.59008
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*Player:

   (unknown)

*Contact:

   City Hall
   36 Court Street
   - or -
   Dept. of Public Buildings
   233 Allen Street
   Springfield, MA  01103-1999
   - or -
   Jim McCoubrey
   T: (413)787-6194
   - or -
   Luke Oliveri
   11 Flint Avenue
   Monson, MA  01057

*Schedule:

   Rarely played.

*Remarks:

   Belfry inaccessible (except in winter)
   because of falcons.
   At least one note inoperable [3/93].
   Original chimestand and transmission
   removed in rebuilding of tower top.
   E.Howard tower clock operable but no
   longer connected to bells.

*Technical data: 

   Electric-keyboard chime of 12 bells
   Pitch of heaviest bell is D# in the middle octave
   Transposition is nil (concert pitch)
   Keyboard range:     D#--  /    NONE  
   There is no practice console
   The whole instrument was installed in 1913
     with bells made by Meneely/Troy
   Year of latest technical information source is 1993

*Links:

Building photos from Emporis Buildings
(Also see our Emporis Advice.)

Where 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 16-Aug-07
   based on textual data last updated on 2007/08/01
   and on technical data last updated on 2001/08/08

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