LINCOLN - STP : USA - NE

   McKinley Memorial Chime

*Location:

   St.Paul United Methodist Church
   M Street at South 12th Street
   Lincoln, Nebraska, USA
   LL: N 40.81161, W 96.70429

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*Player:

   (Church volunteers)

*Contact:

   St.Paul Methodist Church
   1144 M Street
   Lincoln, NE  68508-2173
   T: (402)477-6951   F: (402)477-5713
   E: wyman@saintpaulumc.org

*Schedule:

   For Sunday services

*Remarks:

   Added semitone is flat 7th.

*Technical data:

   Traditional chime (chimestand) of 10 bells
   Pitch of heaviest bell is F  in the middle octave
   Transposition is nil (concert pitch)
   Keyboard range:     F G   /    F A  3
   There is one added semitone
   There is no practice console
   The whole instrument was installed in 1902
     with bells made by Meneely/Troy
   Year of latest technical information source is 1989

*Links:

The church Website has a photo of the building, with its unique roofpeak cupola; but this chime is not mentioned anywhere.

Where this work lies in the sequence of output of the Meneely (Troy) bellfoundry.

Ranking among all North American chimes by size (number of bells).
Ranking among all North American chimes by year of completion.

Index to all tower bell instruments in NE.

*Status:

   This page was built from the database on 12-May-09
   based on textual data last updated on 2009/05/02
   and on technical data last updated on 1993/06/27

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