Kwe Kwe : ZIMBABWE

*Location:

   St.Luke's Church 
   Kwe Kwe, Zimbabwe
   LL: S 18.92951, E 29.80431

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*Contact:

   Roy Purchase, Ringing Master, 
     Zimbabwe Guild 
   6 Orange Grove Drive 
   Highlands, Harare 
   T: 47734 
   - or - 
   Miss T. Rowell, Secretary, 
     Zimbabwe Guild 
   344 Herbert Chitepo Avenue 
   Harare 
   T: 725314

*Remarks:

   First four bells (#1,2,4,6) cast in 1961;
   last two in 1975.

*Technical data:

   Ring of 6 bells
   Pitch of heaviest bell is C# in the treble octave
   Transposition is not applicable
   Keyboard range:     ROPE  /    NONE  
   There are no added semitones
   The instrument was enlarged in 1975
     with 2 bells made by Whitechapel 
   Prior history:
     In 1961, the instrument was begun with  4 bells
       by Whitechapel      
   Year of latest technical information source is 1988

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Where the initial phase of this work lies in the sequence of output of the Whitechapel bellfoundry, in this region and in the world.
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Ranking among all rings in this region by pitch (weight).
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Index to all tower bell instruments in ZW.

*Status:

   This page was built on 11-Jul-05 (not from the database) and last revised on 2-Aug-09.

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