PETROLIA : CANADA - ON

*Location:

   Christ Church (Anglican)
   Oil Street
   Petrolia, Ontario, Canada
   LL: N 42.8816, W 82.1443

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*Player:

   Sylvia Fairbank, Evelyn Ward de Roo,
   and others

*Contact:

   Christ Church
   Oil Street
   Petrolia, ON  N0N 1R0
   T: (519)882-1430
   E: ccpet@rivernet.net

*Schedule:

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*Remarks:

   Tower and chime survived a fire which
   destroyed the church in 1957, and were
   reinstalled in new building in 1958.

*Technical data:

   Chime-sized instrument or collection of 11 bells
   Pitch of heaviest bell is D# in the middle octave
   Transposition is nil (concert pitch)
   Keyboard range:     D#F   /    ----  
   There are two added semitones
   The whole instrument was installed in 1909
     with bells made by Meneely/Wvlt
   Year of latest technical information source is 2001

*Links:

A chimer's tour has a paragraph and photo (near the middle of the page).

Where this work lies in the sequence of output of the Meneely (Watervliet) bellfoundry.

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

Index to all tower bell instruments in ON.

*Status:

   This page was built from the database on  6-Apr-08
   based on textual data last updated on 2008/04/02
   and on technical data last updated on 1993/01/01

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