HIGH POINT : USA - NC

*Location:

   Wesley Memorial United Methodist Church
   1225 Chestnut Drive 
   High Point, North Carolina, USA 

   North Main Street

*Player:

   Rev.D.Edwin (Eddie) Huss,
     Minister of Music 
   E: EHuss@WesleyMemorial.org

*Contact:

   Wesley Memorial Church 
   1225 Chestnut Drive 
   High Point, NC  27262-4666 
   T: (336)884-2204   F: (336)884-4313

*Schedule:

   Before or after church services. 
   Cambridge (Westminster) quarters.

*Remarks:

   Added semitones are the usual flat 7th
   plus unusual minor 3d and its octave;
   the upper major 3rd is missing.  
   Was first electrified about 1940; 
   keyboard and strikers replaced 
   in 2003 by Vanbergen.

*Technical data:

   Electric-keyboard chime of 13 bells
   Pitch of heaviest bell is D  in the middle octave
   Transposition is nil (concert pitch)
   Keyboard range:     D G   /    NONE  
   The whole instrument was installed in 1967
     with bells made by McShane in 1920
   Year of latest technical information source is 2004

*Links:

The church Website has a photo of the building, and mentions the bells on the Music/Instruments page. A History page (under About Us) mentions this chime as well as the congregation's move in 1958-60.

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Where this work lies in the sequence of output of the McShane 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 20-Aug-04
   based on textual data last updated on 2004/08/18
   and on technical data last updated on 2004/08/18

Explanations of page format and keyboard range are available.

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