NEW YORK - STPA : USA - NY

*Location:

   St.Patrick's Cathedral (RC)
   5th Avenue at 51st Street
   New York, New York, USA
   LL: N 40.75888, W 73.97667

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*Player:

   (unknown)

*Contact:

   St.Patrick's Cathedral Office
   14 East 51st Street
   New York, NY  10022-6863
   T: (212)753-2261   F: (212)755-4128

*Schedule:

   (unknown)

*Remarks:

   Originally operated by an E.Howard
   pneumatic mechanism; electrified 1952.

*Technical data:

   Chime-sized instrument or collection of 19 bells
   Pitch of heaviest bell is A# in the bass octave
   Transposition is unknown
   Keyboard range:     ----  /    ----  
   The arrangement of tones and semitones is unknown.
   The whole instrument was installed in 1897
     with bells made by Paccard     
   Year of latest technical information source is 1996

*Links:

The Cathedral page on the Archdiocesan Website has a photo of part of the building.  There is an overview of the Cathedral's history, but the bells are not mentioned anywhere.

A page about the organs has a clickable photo of the building, and mentions this chime.

Building photos from Emporis Buildings
(See also our Emporis Advice.)

Where this work lies in the sequence of output of the Paccard 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 26-Dec-11
   based on textual data last updated on 2007/03/29
   and on technical data last updated on 2001/08/18

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