HOOSICK FALLS : USA - NY

*Location:

   St.Mark's Episcopal Church 
   70 Main Street 
   Hoosick Falls, New York, USA

*Player:

   John Hyde 
   5 Danforth Street 
   Hoosick Falls, NY  12090-1205 
   T: (518)686-3371

*Contact:

   St.Mark's Episcopal Church 
   PO Box 272 
   Hoosick Falls, NY  12090-0061 
   T: (518)686-4982 
   E: mmiller@developmentconnection.com

*Remarks:

   Added semitone is flat 7th.  
   Cast in 1871 and installed in 1872, 
   electrified in the early 1900s. 
   Also an older bell, not part of chime.

*Technical data:

   Electric-keyboard chime of  9 bells
   Pitch of heaviest bell is D# in the middle octave
   Transposition is up  3 semitone(s)
   Keyboard range:     C C   /    NONE  
   There is one added semitone
   The whole instrument was installed in 1872
     with bells made by Meneely/Wvlt
   Year of latest technical information source is 2002

*Links:

The church Website has a photo of the historic building on the splash page, which unfortunately disappears before one can read the description. Fortunately that description and the photo are repeated elsewhere (albeit smaller). The history page includes a paragraph about the chime.

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Also check our own Map Use Hints.

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).

Index to all tower bell instruments in NY.

*Status:

   This page was built from the database on 19-Dec-02
   based on textual data last updated on 2002/12/19
   and on technical data last updated on 2001/08/02

Explanations of page format and keyboard range are available.

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