TORONTO - STJO : CANADA - ON

*Location:

   St.John the Baptist /
   St.John's (Norway) Anglican Church
   Woodbine Avenue at Kingston Road
   Toronto, Ontario, Canada
   LL: N 43.67463, W 79.30860

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*Player:

   Volunteers

*Contact:

   Kevin Saloranta, Chime Coordinator
   E: kevin.saloranta@rogers.com
   - or -
   Stanley King, Organist
   - or -
   Rev. Brian Prideaux
   St.John's Church
   470 Woodbine Avenue
   Toronto, ON  M4E 2H6
   T: (416)691-4560
   E: stjohnnorway@rogers.com

*Schedule:

   For Sunday services

*Technical data:

   Traditional chime (baton keyboard) of  8 bells
   Pitch of heaviest bell is A  in the middle octave
   Transposition is up  9 semitone(s)
   Keyboard range:     C C   /    NONE  
   There are no added semitones
   There is no practice console
   The whole instrument was installed in 1926
     with bells made by Gillett & Johnston
   Year of latest technical information source is 2002

*Links:

The church Website has a drawing of the building and tower on the splash page.  There is a very good page about the chime, with several pictures of bells and keyboard.

Where this work lies in the sequence of output of the Gillett & Johnston bellfoundry, in this region and in the world.

Index to North American baton-keyboard chimes.

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 2002/01/21

Explanations of page format and keyboard range are available.

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