NEW YORK - A : USA - NY

*Location:

   Episcopal Church of the Ascension
   5th Avenue & 10th Street 
   New York, New York, USA

*Player:

   Dennis Keene, Organist and Choirmaster
   E: dkeene@ascensionnyc.org

*Contact:

   Church of the Ascension 
   12 West 11th Street 
   New York, NY  10011-8695 
   T: (212)254-8620   F: (212)254-6520 
   E: info@ascensionnyc.org

*Remarks:

   Added semitones sharp 4th and flat 7th;
   baton keyboard is not used.

*Technical data:

   Traditional chime (baton keyboard) of 12 bells
   Pitch of heaviest bell is C  in the middle octave
   Transposition is nil (concert pitch)
   Keyboard range:     C E   /    ----  
   There is one added semitone
   The whole instrument was installed in 1933
     with bells made by Taylor      
   Year of latest technical information source is 1991

*Links:

The church Website has a tiny drawing of the building in the lower left corner of each page. The Parish History page includes a photo of the tower. The Artistic Heritage page describes the bells, and pictures the largest.

To see a locator map, click here: or here:
Also check our own Map Use Hints.
These maps also show the locations of the chimes at Grace Episcopal Church, Immaculate Conception Catholic Church, Most Holy Redeemer Catholic Church and St.Patrick Cathedral.

Where this work lies in the sequence of output of the Taylor bellfoundry, in this region and in the world.

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 NY.

*Status:

   This page was built from the database on  6-Aug-02
   based on textual data last updated on 2002/08/06
   and on technical data last updated on 2002/08/06

Explanations of page format and keyboard range are available.

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