Darke Memorial Chimes
*Location:
Knox-Metropolitan United Church (was Metropolitan Methodist Church) Victoria Avenue Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada
*Player:
Regina Bell Ringers, Inc. E: Carol_Benesh@CanadaLife.com
*Contact:
Knox-Metropolitan United Church 2340 Victoria Avenue Regina, SK S4P 0S6 T: (306)525-9128
*Remarks:
No keyboard; rung by individual clapper ropes which fall in a circle in the ringing room.
*Technical data:
Chime-sized instrument with action described in Remarks above of 12 bells
Pitch of heaviest bell is C# in the middle octave
Transposition is unknown
Keyboard range: NONE / NONE
There are no added semitones
There is no practice console
The whole instrument was installed in 1927
with bells made by Whitechapel
Year of latest technical information source is 1996
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*Status:
This page was built from the database on 7-Mar-02 based on textual data last updated on 2001/11/14 and on technical data last updated on 2000/05/15
Explanations of page format and keyboard range are available.
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