VICTORIA -- : USA - TX

*Location:

   Trinity Episcopal Church
   North Glass & West Colorado Streets
   Victoria, Texas, USA
   LL: N 28.80871, W 97.00627

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*Player:

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*Contact:

   Trinity Church
   1501 North Glass Street
   Victoria, TX  77901-5130
   T: (361)573-3228   F: (361)573-1476
   E: joyce@trinitywelcomesyou.org

*Schedule:

   Cambridge (Westminster) quarters

*Remarks:

   Tower also contains the old bell which
   was rescued from the 1875 destruction
   by hurricane of the Episcopal Church of
   the Ascension, Indianola, and used
   in the former building of this parish.

*Technical data:

   Chime-sized instrument or collection of 10 bells
   Pitch of heaviest bell is A# in the middle octave
   Transposition is unknown
   Keyboard range:     ----  /    ----  
   The arrangement of tones and semitones is unknown.
   The whole instrument was installed in 1961
     with bells made by Petit & Fritsen
   Year of latest technical information source is 1992

*Links:

On the church Website, the tower is pictured and the bells described in an online tour book (see the bottom of the History page; Shockwave required).

Where this work lies in the sequence of output of the Petit & Fritsen 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 weight (pitch).
Ranking among all North American chimes by year of completion.

Index to all tower bell instruments in TX.

*Status:

   This page was built from the database on 26-Dec-11
   based on textual data last updated on 2010/01/02
   and on technical data last updated on 1993/01/01

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