*Location:
Grace Lutheran Church (ELCA) North Queen and East James Streets Lancaster, Pennsylvania, USA LL: N 40.04616, W 76.30691
*Player:
Richard Kline, Chief Chimer - and - nine other church people
*Contact:
Grace Lutheran Church 517 North Queen Street Lancaster, PA 17603-3097 T: (717)397-2748 E: pastor@GraceLutheranChurch.com
*Schedule:
Before and after Sunday services; Sundays at 6pm
*Technical data:
Chime-sized instrument or collection of 15 bells
Pitch of heaviest bell (excluding sub-bourdon) is F in the middle octave
Transposition is nil (concert pitch)
Keyboard range: (D )F G / ----
There is one missing bass semitone
The instrument was enlarged in 1995
with bells made by Petit & Fritsen
Prior history:
In 1920, the instrument was begun with 10 bells
by McShane
Year of latest technical information source is 2008
*Links:
Where the initial phase of this work lies in the sequence of output of the
McShane bellfoundry.
Where the final phase of this work lies in the sequence of output of the Petit & Fritsen bellfoundry,
in this region
and in the world.
Other chimes which qualify as mini-carillons.
Ranking among all North American chimes by size (number of bells).
Index to all tower bell instruments in PA.
*Status:
This page was built from the database on 15-Apr-08 based on textual data last updated on 2007/03/29 and on technical data last updated on 2008/04/09
Explanations of page format and keyboard range are available.
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