WAPPINGERS FALLS : USA - NY

*Location:

   Zion Episcopal Church 
   East Main Street (NY Route 9D) 
     at Satterlee Place
   Wappingers Falls, New York, USA

*Player:

   Barbara Griffin 
   510 Maloney Road, H-7
   Poughkeepsie, NY  12603-5914 
   T: (845)462-8459 
   - or - 
   Patricia Allen 
   T: (845)471-3029

*Contact:

   Zion Episcopal Church 
   12 Satterlee Place 
   Wappingers Falls, NY  12590 
   T: (845)297-9797

*Schedule:

   Prior to 10am Eucharist on Sundays

*Remarks:

   Cambridge (Westminster) quarters, 
   mechanical clock.  Added semitones are
   sharp 4th and flat 7th.  Tower also 
   contains an independent swinging bell 
   by Meneely/West Troy, 1869.
   Prior to installation of present chime,
   the tower contained a 15-note tubular 
   chime; it was given to Washington 
   National Cathedral after the second 
   rector of this church became the first
   bishop of Washington, and now hangs in
   the tower of St.Alban's School on 
   the Cathedral grounds in Washington.

*Technical data:

   Traditional chime (chimestand) of 11 bells
   Pitch of heaviest bell is D  in the middle octave
   Transposition is nil (concert pitch)
   Keyboard range:     D E   /    D G  4
   There are two added semitones
   There is no practice console
   The whole instrument was installed in 1906
     with bells made by Meneely/Troy
   Year of latest technical information source is 1992

*Links:

The church Website has a tiny photo of the building and tower in the top menu bar of every page, a pair of larger ones (winter and summer) on the home page, and an even larger one on the Parish Profile page (found on the Parish Information pull-down menu). The present chime and chimers have a small section on the Parish Directory page (found on the same menu). The History page doesn't mention the previous tubular chime, though it does identify the parish's connection to the National Cathedral.

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Where this work lies in the sequence of output of the Meneely (Troy) 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 21-Jan-05
   based on textual data last updated on 2005/01/21
   and on technical data last updated on 1992/09/07

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