CLEMSON - HT : USA - SC

*Location:

   Holy Trinity Episcopal Church
   193 Old Greenville Highway (SC-93),
     between Hillcrest and College Avenues
   Clemson, South Carolina, USA
   LL: N 34.68299, W 82.83929

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*Player:

   (unknown)

*Contact:

   Holy Trinity Episcopal Church
   193 Old Greenville Highway
   Clemson, SC  29631-1335
   T: (803)654-5071   F: (864)654-5066
   E: htchurch@holytrinityclemson.org

*Schedule:

   (unknown)

*Remarks:

   Original church building demolished in
   1996, following completion of the
   current building.  For a time, all but
   one bell were in storage, awaiting
   restoration.  Reports of 18 or 23 bells
   are incorrect.

*Technical data:

   Chime-sized instrument (without any workable playing mechanism) of 16 bells
   Pitch of heaviest bell is E  in the treble octave
   Transposition is unknown
   Keyboard range:     ----  /    ----  
   The whole instrument was installed in 1967
     with bells made by vanBergen   
   Year of latest technical information source is 2000

*Links:

The church Website has a photo of the entranceway and belfry (partially obscured by a tree) below the left-margin menu on every page.

Where this work lies in the sequence of output of the vanBergen 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 year of completion.

Index to all tower bell instruments in SC.

*Status:

   This page was built from the database on  6-Jan-10
   based on textual data last updated on 2010/01/02
   and on technical data last updated on 2000/07/30

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