TAMAQUA : USA - PA

*Location:

   Trinity United Church of Christ 
   Lafayette Street 
   Tamaqua, Pennsylvania, USA

*Contact:

   Trinity Church 
   22 Lafayette Street 
   Tamaqua, PA  18252-1315 
   T: (570)668-4139 
   E: grantds@ptd.net

*Remarks:

   Added semitone is flat 7th. 
   Arthur Bigelow built new baton 
   keyboard when he added new bells.

*Technical data:

   Traditional chime (baton keyboard) of 12 bells
   Pitch of heaviest bell is F  in the middle octave
   Transposition is up  5 semitone(s)
   Keyboard range:     C F   /    ----  
   There is one added semitone
   The instrument was enlarged in unknown year
     with bells made by Paccard     
   Prior history:
     Previously, the instrument was begun with  9 bells
       by McShane     
   Year of latest technical information source is 2002

Additional information on the technical history of this instrument can be found in a database printout.

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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 Paccard 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 25-Sep-02
   based on textual data last updated on 2002/09/25
   and on technical data last updated on 2002/09/23

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