PETERBOROUGH -- : USA - NH

*Location:

   All Saints Episcopal Church 
   51 Concord Street 
   Peterborough, New Hampshire, USA

*Player:

   Church members

*Contact:

   All Saints Church 
   51 Concord Street 
   Peterborough, NH  03458-1510 
   T: (603)924-3202 
   E: allsaintsnh@earthlink.net

*Remarks:

   Expansion added sharp 4th and treble, 
   with electric action independent of 
   original mechanical drum. 
   Also a small G&J sanctus bell (1923) 
   atop the chime frame.

*Technical data:

   Electric-keyboard chime of 12 bells
   Pitch of heaviest bell is F# in the middle octave
   Transposition is unknown
   Keyboard range:     ----  /    ----  
   There is one added semitone
   The instrument was enlarged in 1963
     with bells made by Petit & Fritsen
   Prior history:
     In 1923, the instrument was begun with 10 bells
       by Gillett & Johnston
   Year of latest technical information source is 2003

Additional information on the technical history of this instrument can be found in a database printout.

*Links:

The church Website has a small sketch of the building on the home page. On the history page is a good photo of the building, but the description of the chime is misleading (see above). The bass bell is actually 1669 lbs per G&J tuning records.

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Where the initial phase of this work lies in the sequence of output of the Gillett & Johnston bellfoundry, in this region and in the world.
Where the final phase of this work lies in the sequence of output of the Petit & Fritsen 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 NH.

*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 2004/01/05

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