BROOKLYN - OLGC : USA - NY

*Location:

   Our Lady of Good Counsel Church (RC)
   Putnam and Ralph Avenues 
   Bedford-Stuyvesant
   Brooklyn, New York, USA

*Contact:

   Our Lady of Good Counsel Rectory
   915 Putnam Avenue 
   Brooklyn, NY  11221-3507 
   T: (718)443-7211   F: (718)443-0121

*Remarks:

   Space in frame for a bourdon (to make 
   a carillon).  Renovated 1976.

*Technical data:

   Electric-keyboard chime of 22 bells
   Pitch of heaviest bell is unknown
   Transposition is unknown
   Keyboard range:     ----  /    ----  
   There is one missing bass semitone
   The whole instrument was installed in 1914
     with bells made by Paccard     
   Year of latest technical information source is 1992

*Links:

To see a locator map, click here: or here:
Also check our own Map Use Hints.
Map 1 also shows (when zoomed out) the locations of the chimes at Blessed Sacrament Catholic Church, Reformed Church of Flatbush, St.Ann Episcopal Church / Packer Institute, St.Bartholomew Episcopal Church (chimola), St.Brigid Catholic Church, St.Mark Lutheran Church, St.Peter Lutheran Church, St.Teresa Catholic Church and St.Thomas Episcopal Church (chimola). (Maps 2 and 3 show only the nearest neighbor(s).)

Where this work lies in the sequence of output of the Paccard bellfoundry.

Other chimes which qualify as mini-carillons.

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

Index to all tower bell instruments in NY.

*Status:

   This page was built from the database on 23-Jan-03
   based on textual data last updated on 2003/01/12
   and on technical data last updated on 1993/01/01

Explanations of page format and keyboard range are available.

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