KANSAS CITY - V : USA - MO

*Location:

   North tower
   Visitation of the Blessed Virgin
     RC Church
   5141 Main Street, at 51st Terrace
   Kansas City, Missouri, USA
   LL: N 39.03321, W 94.58728

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*Player:

   (unknown)

*Contact:

   Visitation Rectory
   2 East 51st Terrace
   Kansas City, MO  64112-2725
   T: (816)753-5155   F: (816)753-5505
   E: vis@visitation.org
   - or -
   Beatrice Santner,
     Director of Music and Liturgy
   E: beatrice@church.visitation.org

*Schedule:

   (unknown)

*Remarks:

   Electric keyboard near the organ

*Technical data:

   Electric-keyboard chime of 10 bells
   Pitch of heaviest bell is F  in the middle octave
   Transposition is unknown
   Keyboard range:     ----  /    NONE  
   The arrangement of tones and semitones is unknown.
   The whole instrument was installed in 1920
     with bells made by McShane     
   Year of latest technical information source is 2000

*Links:

The church Website has an architectural drawing of the building complex on the home page.

A photo (47KB) of the church; the chime is in the left (north) tower.

Where this work lies in the sequence of output of the McShane bellfoundry.

Ranking among all North American chimes by size (number of bells).
Ranking among all North American chimes by weight (pitch).
Ranking among all North American chimes by year of completion.

Index to all tower bell instruments in MO.

*Status:

   This page was built from the database on 26-Dec-11
   based on textual data last updated on 2010/03/28
   and on technical data last updated on 2005/03/21

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