READING - TL : USA - PA

*Location:

   Trinity Lutheran Church (ELCA)
   Washington and Church Streets
   Reading, Pennsylvania, USA
   LL: N 40.3370, W 75.9268

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*Player:

   (unknown)

*Contact:

   Dr. Rändel L. Wolfe, Director of Music
   409 Douglass Street
   Reading, PA  19601-2525
   H: (610)372-8061   W: (610)374-4861
   E: rwolfe@oldtrinity.org
   - or -
   Trinity Lutheran Church
   527 Washington Street
   Reading, PA  19601-3420
   T: (610)374-4861   F: (610)371-0712
   E: bardhouse@oldtrinity.org

*Schedule:

   (unknown)

*Remarks:

   Uses computer entry/transposition pgm.

*Technical data:

   Electric-keyboard chime of 10 bells
   Pitch of heaviest bell is G  in the middle octave
   Transposition is unknown
   Keyboard range:     ----  /    ----  
   The whole instrument was installed in 1952
     with bells made by Petit & Fritsen
   Year of latest technical information source is unknown

*Links:

The church Website has a sketch of the steeple in the background of its home page (not the mostly-blank splash page).  But the chime isn't mentioned anywhere.

Building photos from Emporis Buildings
(Also see our Emporis Advice.)

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

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 21-Apr-07
   based on textual data last updated on 2007/04/20
   and on technical data last updated on 1992/05/18

Explanations of page format and keyboard range are available.

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