HASTINGS : USA - NE

*Location:

   First United Methodist Church 
   West 7th Street & Hastings Avenue 
   Hastings, Nebraska, USA

*Player:

   Melody Redinger (Mrs. Bill) 
   309 East Fifth Street 
   Hastings, NE  68901 
   H: (402)462-9096

*Contact:

   First Methodist Church 
   614 North Hastings Avenue 
   Hastings, NE  68901-5114 
   T: (402)463-6733   F: (402)462-9906 
   E: fumc@inebraska.com

*Schedule:

   For Sunday services.

*Remarks:

   Added semitone is flat 7th.

*Technical data:

   Traditional chime (chimestand) of 10 bells
   Pitch of heaviest bell is E  in the middle octave
   Transposition is nil (concert pitch)
   Keyboard range:     E F#  /    NONE  
   There is one added semitone
   There is no practice console
   The whole instrument was installed in 1916
     with bells made by McShane     
   Year of latest technical information source is 1993

*Links:

The church Website has a fine large photo of the building on the home page.

To see a locator map, click here: or here: or here:
Also check our own Map Use Hints.

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 NE.

*Status:

   This page was built from the database on  9-Mar-02
   based on textual data last updated on 2002/02/11
   and on technical data last updated on 1993/06/27

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