EAST ORANGE : USA - NJ

*Location:

   Our Lady Help of Christians Church 
   Main and North Clinton Streets 
   East Orange, New Jersey, USA

*Contact:

   Church of Holy Spirit and Our Lady 
     Help of Christians 
   17 North Clinton Street 
   East Orange, NJ  07017-3596 
   T: (973)673-1077   F: (973)676-6494 
   E: hsolhc@intac.com

*Remarks:

   Restored 1969, with new clavier.
   Rough neighborhood. 
   Added semitones: sharp 4th & flat 7th.

*Technical data:

   Traditional chime (baton keyboard) of 14 bells
   Pitch of heaviest bell is E  in the middle octave
   Transposition is unknown
   Keyboard range:     ----  /    NONE  
   There are two added semitones
   The whole instrument was installed in 1926
     with bells made by Gillett & Johnston
   Year of latest technical information source is 1992

*Links:

On a commercial site, there is a photo page.

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

Where this work lies in the sequence of output of the Gillett & Johnston bellfoundry, in this region and in the world.

Index to North American baton-keyboard chimes.

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

Index to all tower bell instruments in NJ.

*Status:

   This page was built from the database on 26-Aug-02
   based on textual data last updated on 2002/08/26
   and on technical data last updated on 1992/12/12

Explanations of page format and keyboard range are available.

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