NEW YORK - STM : USA - NY

*Location:

   St.Martin's Episcopal Church
   122nd Street at Lenox Avenue
     (Malcolm X Boulevard)
   New York, New York, USA
   LL: N 40.80560, W 73.94663

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*Player:

   Michael J. Smith
   838 West End Avenue, Apt.4A
   New York, NY  10025-2777
   H: (212)864-3802   C: (917)371-7223
   E: mjs@smithbowen.net

   19??-2000 Dionisio A. Lind   (A)
   19??-?? Kamiel Lefevere

*Contact:

   St.Martin's Episcopal Church
   230 Malcolm X Boulevard
   New York, NY  10027-6396
   T: (212)534-4531

*Schedule:

   (unknown)

*Remarks:

   First carillon installed in USA after
   World War II.  Swinging bells form
   major triad on bourdon.
   Unusable practice console has same
   range but different dimensions.

*Technical data:

   Traditional carillon of 42 bells
   Pitch of heaviest bell is D# in the middle octave
   Transposition is up  3 semitone(s)
   Keyboard range:     C G   /    C G   
   There are two missing bass semitones
   The whole instrument was installed in 1949
     with bells made by vanBergen   
   Year of latest technical information source is 1989

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

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

Index to all traditional carillons in NY.

Index to all tower bell instruments in NY.

*Status:

   This page was built from the database on 16-Apr-09
   based on textual data last updated on 2009/04/13
   and on technical data last updated on 1997/07/07

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