READING - TL : USA - PA

*Location:

   Trinity Lutheran Church (ELCA)
   Washington and North 6th Streets
   Reading, Pennsylvania, USA
   LL: N 40.33708, W 75.92637

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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 arrangement of tones and semitones is unknown.
   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 photo of the tower on the home page.  But the chime isn't mentioned anywhere.

Building photos from Emporis Buildings
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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).
Ranking among all North American chimes by weight (pitch).
Ranking among all North American chimes by year of completion.

Index to all tower bell instruments in PA.

*Status:

   This page was built from the database on 26-Dec-11
   based on textual data last updated on 2009/05/01
   and on technical data last updated on 1992/05/18

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