HOUSTON - PM/1 : USA - TX

*Location:

   Upper belfry
   Palmer Memorial Episcopal Church
   South Main Street,
     near North McGregor Way
   Houston, Texas, USA
   LL: N 29.71636, W 95.39643
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*Player:

   (unknown)

*Contact:

   Palmer Memorial Church
   6221 Main Street
   Houston, TX  77030
   T: (713)529-6196   F: (713)529-6178
   E: cdknapp@palmerchurch.org

*Schedule:

   (unknown)

*Remarks:

   Comprised of four swinging bells by
   Meneely/Troy (3 of 1927 and 1 of 1929)
   plus five new bells by Whitechapel;
   old bells tuned and rehung for swing-
   chiming by Whitechapel.  Upper belfry
   is original to the building; for the
   ring of 8 in the lower belfry,
   see below.

*Technical data: 

   Electric-keyboard chime of  9 bells
   Pitch of heaviest bell is unknown
   Transposition is unknown
   Keyboard range:     ----  /    ----  
   There is one added semitone
   The whole instrument was installed in 2005
     by the maker cited in Remarks above
   Year of latest technical information source is 2004

*Links:

The church Website is mostly invisible to some Web browsers, and does not comply with accessibility standards.  If you're lucky enough to be able to see it, there is a good frame about the Bells Project.

(The initial phase of this work is not indexed because it consists of fewer than 8 bells.)
Where the final phase 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 TX, including the ring of 8 (PM/2) in the new lower belfry of the same tower.

*Status: 

   This page was built from the database on 16-Aug-07
   based on textual data last updated on 2007/08/01
   and on technical data last updated on 2004/07/24

Explanations of page format and keyboard range are available.

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