UPPER MONTCLAIR - PC : USA - NJ

*Location:

   The Presbyterian Church of 
     Upper Montclair (PCUSA) 
   Norwood Avenue at Inwood Avenue 
   Upper Montclair, New Jersey, USA

*Player:

   Barbara Novak 
   85 Greendale Road 
   Clifton, NJ  07013-3446 
   T: (973)773-9383

*Contact:

   The Presbyterian Church of 
     Upper Montclair 
   53 Norwood Avenue 
   Upper Montclair, NJ  07043-1996 
   T: (973)746-3854

*Remarks:

   Added semitones are G#, A#, C, D#. 
   Oversized baton keyboard rarely used 
   because of difficult access to tower; 
   electric keyboard beside organ console.
   Space in both keyboards for expansion 
   to two octaves.

*Technical data:

   Traditional chime (baton keyboard) of 16 bells
   Pitch of heaviest bell is D  in the middle octave
   Transposition is nil (concert pitch)
   Keyboard range:     D A   /    NONE  
   There are four added semitones
   There is no practice console
   The whole instrument was installed in 1929
     with bells made by Meneely/Wvlt
   Year of latest technical information source is 1991

*Links:

To see a locator map, click here: or here:
Also check our own Map Use Hints.
These maps also show the location of the chime at St.James Episcopal Church.

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

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 24-Aug-02
   based on textual data last updated on 2002/01/21
   and on technical data last updated on 1991/09/23

Explanations of page format and keyboard range are available.

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