BROOKLYN - STBA : USA - NY

*Location:

   St.Bartholomew's Episcopal Church 
   Pacific Street, 
     between Bedford and Nostrand Avenues 
   Brooklyn, New York, USA

*Contact:

   St.Bartholomew's Church 
   1227 Pacific Street 
   Brooklyn, NY  11216-3099 
   T: (718)467-8750   F: (718)773-7989

*Remarks:

   Hemispherical bells (chimola); added 
   semitones are sharp 4th & flat 7th.

*Technical data:

   Electric-keyboard chime of 11 bells
   Pitch of heaviest bell is D# in the middle octave
   Transposition is up  3 semitone(s)
   Keyboard range:     C D   /    NONE  
   There are two added semitones
   The whole instrument was installed in 1928
     with bells made by Meneely/Wvlt
   Year of latest technical information source is 1997

*Links:

To see a locator map, click here: or 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, Our Lady of Good Counsel Catholic Church, Reformed Church of Flatbush, St.Ann Episcopal Church / Packer Institute, 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 Meneely (Watervliet) bellfoundry.

Index to North American chimolas.

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 29-Aug-02
   based on textual data last updated on 2002/08/29
   and on technical data last updated on 2001/07/26

Explanations of page format and keyboard range are available.

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