JAMESTOWN : USA - NY

*Location:

   St.Luke's Episcopal Church
   North Main & East 4th Streets
   Jamestown, New York, USA
   LL: N 42.09752, W 79.24140

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*Player:

   R.Richard Corbin, Organist

*Contact:

   St.Luke's Episcopal Church
   410 North Main Street
   Jamestown, NY  14701-5088
   - or -
   5 East 4th Street
   Jamestown, NY  14701-5001
   T: (716)483-6405   F: (716)483-6406

*Schedule:

   (unknown)

*Remarks:

   Added semitones sharp 4th, flat 7th.
   Electrified c.1956-7, via stop on Great
   manual of Aeolian-Skinner organ
   installed that year; also an independent
   keyboard in the tower.

*Technical data:

   Electric-keyboard (from organ) chime of 12 bells
   Pitch of heaviest bell is C  in the middle octave
   Transposition is nil (concert pitch)
   Keyboard range:     C E   /    NONE  
   There are two added semitones
   The whole instrument was installed in 1894
     with bells made by Vanduzen    
   Year of latest technical information source is 2005

*Links:

The church Website has a picture of the building on the home page, but there is no history and no mention of the bells.

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

Ranking among all North American chimes by size (number of bells).
Ranking among all North American chimes by weight (pitch).
Ranking among all North American chimes by year of completion.

Index to all tower bell instruments in NY.

*Status:

   This page was built from the database on 18-Sep-10
   based on textual data last updated on 2010/09/16
   and on technical data last updated on 2010/09/07

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