CHARLESTON - STJ : USA - SC

*Location:

   St.John's Lutheran Church (ELCA) 
   Clifford and Archdale Streets 
   Charleston, South Carolina, USA

*Player:

   Roy Stewart

*Contact:

   St.John's Lutheran Church 
   5 Clifford Street 
   Charleston, SC  29401 
   T: (843)723-2426   F: (843)577-2543 
   E: church3680@bellsouth.net

*Remarks:

   Installation and controls by Vanbergen;
   sub-bourdon also swings. 
   Designed to enable future expansion.

*Technical data:

   Electric-keyboard (from organ) chime of 19 bells
   Pitch of heaviest bell is C  in the treble octave
   Transposition is up 12 semitone(s)
   Keyboard range: (G )C G   /    NONE  
   There are two missing bass semitones
   The whole instrument was installed in 1992
     with bells made by Paccard     
   Year of latest technical information source is 2004

*Links:

The church Website mentions this chime on the Music page (found under Programs). There is a picture of the tower on the Contact page.

To see a locator map, click here: or here:
Also check our own Map Use Hints.
These maps also show the location of St.Matthew Lutheran Church (chime), Grace Episcopal Church (ring of 10), St.Michael's Episcopal Church (ring of 8) and the Cathedral of St.Luke & St.Paul (ring of 8). Map 1, when zoomed out one to four levels, also shows the locations of The Citadel (traditional carillon) and Stella Maris Catholic Church at Sullivan's Island (ring of 8).

Where this work lies in the sequence of output of the Paccard 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 SC.

*Status:

   This page was built from the database on 14-Dec-04
   based on textual data last updated on 2004/12/07
   and on technical data last updated on 2004/12/14

Explanations of page format and keyboard range are available.

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