SHELBY : USA - NC

*Location:

   First Baptist Church (SBC) 
   North Lafayette & Campbell Streets 
   Shelby, North Carolina, USA

*Player:

   Dr. Andy Roby, Minister of Music 
   E: music@fbcshelby.org

*Contact:

   First Baptist Church 
   120 North Lafayette Street 
   Shelby, NC  28150-4456 
   T: (704)482-3467   F: (704)482-1137 
   E: info@fbcshelby.org

*Remarks:

   Bells cast in Greenwood, SC; memorial
   to Mary Adelaide Roberts Austell, 
   dedicated Christmas Eve, 1978.

*Technical data:

   Electric-keyboard chime of 16 bells
   Pitch of heaviest bell is F  in the middle octave
   Transposition is unknown
   Keyboard range:     ----  /    ----  
   The whole instrument was installed in 1978
     with bells made by vanBergen   
   Year of latest technical information source is 2004

*Links:

The church Website has a photo of the building on the home page; click on that to see more pictures and a history of the building. Yet another photo is on the About Us page. But there is no mention of these bells anywhere.

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Where this work lies in the sequence of output of the vanBergen bellfoundry, in this region and in the world.

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 30-Aug-04
   based on textual data last updated on 2004/08/30
   and on technical data last updated on 2004/08/30

Explanations of page format and keyboard range are available.

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