DALSTON - SMY : ENGLAND -E

*Location:

   Saint Mary's Catholic Church
   Ball's Pond Road nr King Henry's Walk
   Dalston, West Hackney,
     London E.8, England
   OS Ref. TQ 331 849
   LL: N 51.54669, W 0.08165

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*Player:

   (unknown)

*Contact:

   (unknown)

*Schedule:

   (unknown)

*Remarks:

   Tenor inscribed "Mears London";
   all dated 1963.
   Non-standard baton mechanism

*Technical data:

   Traditional chime (baton keyboard) of  8 bells
   Pitch of heaviest bell is C  in the treble octave
   Transposition is unknown
   Keyboard range:     ----  /    ----  
   There are no added semitones
   The whole instrument was installed in 1963
     with bells made by Whitechapel 
   Year of latest technical information source is 2005

*Links:

Where this work lies in the sequence of output of the Whitechapel bellfoundry, in this region and in the world.

Ranking among all British Isles chimes by pitch (weight).
Ranking among all British Isles chimes by size (number of bells).
Ranking among all British Isles chimes by year of completion.

Index to all tower bell instruments in England.

*Status:

   This page was built from the database on 21-Nov-07
   based on textual data last updated on 2007/11/16
   and on technical data last updated on 2007/11/16

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