MANCHESTER : USA - NH

   Governor Frederick Smythe Chimes

*Location:

   Brookside Congregational Church (UCC) 
   (was Franklin Street Cong. Church)
   Elm Street at Waldo Street 
   Manchester, New Hampshire, USA

*Player:

   Volunteers

*Contact:

   Brookside Congregational Church 
   2013 Elm Street 
   Manchester, NH  03104-2592 
   T: (603)669-2807   F: (603)668-9041 
   E: brucea@brooksidecc.org

*Remarks:

   Previous building was condemned, and 
   congregation moved uptown, after 1912 
   and probably after 1920.

*Technical data:

   Chime-sized instrument or collection of  9 bells
   Pitch of heaviest bell is F  in the middle octave
   Transposition is unknown
   Keyboard range:     ----  /    ----  
   The whole instrument was installed in 1878
     with bells made by Meneely/Troy
   Year of latest technical information source is 1912

*Links:

The church Website has a photo of the building with its colonial-style steeple, but says nothing about the bells (except in a PDF file) nor about the church history.

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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).

Index to all tower bell instruments in NH.

*Status:

   This page was built from the database on 21-Mar-04
   based on textual data last updated on 2004/03/21
   and on technical data last updated on 1992/06/06

Explanations of page format and keyboard range are available.

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