CAMBRIDGE : CANADA - ON

*Location:

   Central Presbyterian Church
   Queen's Square at Grand River
   Galt,
     Cambridge, Ontario, Canada
   LL: N 43.35917, W 80.31671

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*Player:

   Peter Goudy
   E: peter.goudy@ontario.ca
   - and -
   John McDonald

*Contact:

   Central Presbyterian Church
   7 Queen's Square
   Cambridge, ON  N1S 1H4
   T: (519)623-1080
   E: via Webform, centralchurchcambridge.ca

*Schedule:

   (unknown)

*Remarks:

   Added semitone is flat 7th.
   Tenor still swings by rope.

*Technical data:

   Traditional chime (chimestand) of 10 bells
   Pitch of heaviest bell is E  in the middle octave
   Transposition is nil (concert pitch)
   Keyboard range:     E F#  /    NONE  
   There is one added semitone
   The whole instrument was installed in 1909
     with bells made by McShane     
   Year of latest technical information source is 2008

*Links:

Photo of the church

News article about this chime and its players

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

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

Index to all tower bell instruments in ON.

*Status:

   This page was built from the database on  9-May-10
   based on textual data last updated on 2010/04/30
   and on technical data last updated on 2009/07/19

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