FAYETTEVILLE - SM : USA - NC

*Location:

   Snyder Memorial Baptist Church
   Westmont Drive at Rockledge Avenue
   Fayetteville, North Carolina, USA
   LL: N 35.06609, W 78.90552
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*Player:

   Larry Dickens, Minister of Music
   E: larryd@snydermbc.com

*Contact:

   Snyder Memorial Baptist Church
   701 Westmont Drive
   Fayetteville, NC  28305-4553
   T: (910)484-3191
   E: gerong@snydermbc.com

*Schedule:

   (unknown)

*Remarks:

   Cambridge (Westminster) quarters.
   Hung in frame designed for 40 bells.

*Technical data: 

   Electric-keyboard chime of 18 bells
   Pitch of heaviest bell is G  in the middle octave
   Transposition is unknown
   Keyboard range:     ----  /    NONE  
   The arrangement of tones and semitones is unknown.
   The instrument was enlarged in 2008
     with bells made by Paccard     
   Prior history:
     In 2007, the instrument was enlarged to 15 bells
       by Paccard     
     In 2006, the instrument was begun with 11 bells
       by Paccard     
   Year of latest technical information source is 2008
Additional information on the technical history of this instrument can be found in a database printout.

*Links:

The church Website is heavily Flash-based; some parts are accessible to all Web browsers, but the Flash presentation which appears on all pages may obstruct access to some parts of the menu system on even the most modern browsers.  The Virtual Tour (under About / Tour Our Facilities) opens with a photo of the building and tower.  But these bells are not mentioned anywhere.

Where the initial phase of this work lies in the sequence of output of the Paccard bellfoundry, in this region and in the world.
Where the second phase of this work lies in the sequence of output of the Paccard bellfoundry, in this region and in the world.
Where the final phase of this work lies in the sequence of output of the Paccard bellfoundry, in this region and in the world.

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 NC.

*Status: 

   This page was built from the database on 26-Dec-11
   based on textual data last updated on 2008/11/13
   and on technical data last updated on 2008/11/14

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