REGINA - KM : CANADA - SK

   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

*Links:

The Regina Bell Ringers have a Website of their own. It covers not only this chime but also a handbell group and an 8-note tubular chime.

Click here to see a locator map: MapBlast map Also check our own Map Use Hints.

Where this work lies in the sequence of output of the Whitechapel 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 SK.

*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


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