MILWAUKEE - CDLC : USA - WI

*Location:

   Capitol Drive Lutheran Church (ELCA)
   West Capitol Drive at North 53rd Street
   Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA
   LL: N 43.08967, W 87.97986

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*Player:

   (unknown)

*Contact:

   Capitol Drive Lutheran Church
   5229 West Capitol Drive
   Milwaukee, WI  53216-2396
   T: (414)445-1656   F: (414)445-1688
   E: vickie@capitoldrivelutheran.org

*Schedule:

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*Remarks:

   Added semitone is flat 7th; installed
   by Verdin, and dedicated Oct.1956.
   Restored by Lee Mfg.Co. (J.Witkowiak)
   in Fall of 2002.
   Two playing keyboards.

*Technical data:

   Electric-keyboard chime of 10 bells
   Pitch of heaviest bell is A# in the middle octave
   Transposition is up 10 semitone(s)
   Keyboard range:     C D   /    NONE  
   There is one added semitone
   The whole instrument was installed in 1956
     with bells made by Petit & Fritsen
   Year of latest technical information source is 2007

*Links:

The church Website has a small picture of the tower on the home page.  The Worship page has a photo of the tower which shows the bells in the open belfry.  A Newsletter page has a photo of the tower and a history of its installation and renovation.

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).

Index to all tower bell instruments in WI.

*Status:

   This page was built from the database on 25-Aug-07
   based on textual data last updated on 2007/08/25
   and on technical data last updated on 2007/07/04

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