DURHAM - MMC : USA - NC

*Location:

   East tower 
   Duke Memorial United Methodist Church 
   West Chapel Hill and Duke Streets 
   Durham, North Carolina, USA

*Player:

   Robert Irvine 
   T: (919)863-3467 
   - and - 
   J. Stuart McCracken M.D. 
   3414 West Cornwallis Road 
   Durham, NC  27705-6205 
   H: (919)489-6692

*Contact:

   Duke Memorial Methodist Church 
   504 West Chapel Hill Street 
   Durham, NC  27701-3102 
   T: (919)683-3467 
   E: julianirvine@dukememorial.org

*Technical data:

   Traditional chime (chimestand) of 10 bells
   Pitch of heaviest bell is F# in the middle octave
   Transposition is unknown
   Keyboard range:     ----  /    ----  
   The whole instrument was installed in 1907
     with bells made by Meneely/Wvlt
   Year of latest technical information source is 1994

*Links:

The church Website has a photo of the building and its tall twin towers.

To see a locator map, click here: or here: or here:
Also check our own Map Use Hints.
Map 3 also shows the location of the carillon at Duke University Chapel; map 1 will show it if zoomed out one level.

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 NC.

*Status:

   This page was built from the database on 25-Jul-02
   based on textual data last updated on 2002/07/25
   and on technical data last updated on 2002/03/16

Explanations of page format and keyboard range are available.

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