LONDON - WBF : ENGLAND -W

*Location:

   Whitechapel Bell Foundry
   Whitechapel Road at Plumbers Row
   Whitechapel, London, E.1, England
   OS Ref. TQ 342 815
   LL: N 51.51694, W 0.06709

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*Player:

  (unknown)

*Contact:

   Whitechapel Bell Foundry
   32/34 Whitechapel Road
   London  E1 1DY
   T: 020/7247 2599   F: 020/7375 1979
   E: bells@whitechapelbellfoundry.co.uk

*Schedule:

   Not regularly played

*Remarks:

   Treble cast 1975; four cast 1980

*Technical data:

   Electric-keyboard chime of 12 bells
   Pitch of heaviest bell is F# in the treble octave
   Transposition is up 18 semitone(s)
   Keyboard range:     C E   /    NONE  
   There are two added semitones
   The whole instrument was installed in 1981
     with bells made by Whitechapel  (5 made in other years)
   Year of latest technical information source is 2006

*Links:

On the foundry Website, the lower part of this chime can be seen in several News photos taken in the courtyard; the best is in the article about Charlie Smith (second photo on the page).

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 31-Dec-06
   based on textual data last updated on 2006/12/27
   and on technical data last updated on 2006/12/27

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