NEW BRUNSWICK - STP : USA - NJ

*Location:

   St.Peter the Apostle Catholic Church
   Somerset Street at College Avenue
   New Brunswick, New Jersey, USA
   LL: N 40.49779, W 74.44614

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*Player:

   Anthony R. Nardino, Director of Music
   E: anardino@gmail.com
   - and -
   Norris Harding III

*Contact:

   St.Peter's Rectory
   94 Somerset Street
   New Brunswick, NJ  08901-1220
   T: (732)545-6820   F: (732)545-4069
   E: info@stpetertheapostle.org

*Schedule:

   For special occasions

*Remarks:

   Added semitone is flat 7th

*Technical data:

   Chime-sized instrument or collection of  9 bells
   Pitch of heaviest bell is F  in the middle octave
   Transposition is nil (concert pitch)
   Keyboard range:     F F   /    ----  
   There is one added semitone
   The whole instrument was installed in 1870
     with bells made by Meneely/Wvlt
   Year of latest technical information source is 2009

*Links:

The church Webpage shows an old postcard view of the building.

A parish page about the church has a photo of the building (from an old postcard).

Where this work lies in the sequence of output of the Meneely (Watervliet) 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 NJ.

*Status:

   This page was built from the database on 14-Oct-09
   based on textual data last updated on 2009/10/09
   and on technical data last updated on 2009/10/09

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