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Ayars, Contributions to the Art of Music in America by the Music Industries of Boston (1937) — the Squier, Farley, Rettberg, Rockwell and Elias Howe matter, 1937
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1Range is from the G Major scale inclusive. Lower "G" bell 1393 lbs. is the ordinary service and alarm bell. "A" 987 lbs. is the funeral toll. "B" 715 lbs. is the marriage bell. "C" is 616 lbs. "D" 416 lbs. is the gift of C. B. Caldwell. "E" 299 lbs. is the Sunday School bell. "F" 256 lbs. is the Christening bell. "F#" 257 lbs. and "G" 186 are in Memoriam.
3EIGHTH CHIME in Mass. Has 9 bells, aggregate weight 5025 lbs., cast in 1873. See page 189 for more information.
5In Grace Church, [address hidden], Medford, Mass. Used regularly in winter months before Sunday morning service. Also rung at Christmas and other special days and occasionally in the summer.
7CHIME OF [address hidden] key of "E." See page 190 for more information.
9In Grace Church (Episcopal), [address hidden], Newton, Mass. Hymns etc. played regularly on them Sundays.
11TENTH CHIME in Mass. Has 16 bells. See page 190 for further information.
13In St. Mary's church (Roman Catholic), Lawrence, Mass. Played at least once a week.
15HENRY N. HOOPER & CO.
17THE HARVARD CHIME cast in 1859, consists of 13 bells.
19In Christ Church, [address hidden], Cambridge, Mass. (Near Harvard Square). Rung on church days and Harvard College festivals and special occasions.
20Cast at a cost of more than $5000. Is the only set of bells in Cambridge. Each bell bears on it a portion of the Gloria in Excelsis.
21No. 1 bears also the inscription
22"Let the Name of Mr. Thomas Dowse of Cambridge
23BE REMEMBERED,
24'THE LIBERAL MAN DEVISETH
25LIBERAL THINGS'"
27No. 2 is from its inscription in memory of the benefits of the Venerable English Society founded for propagating the Gospel in foreign lands, as a mission of which Christ Church was begun.
29No. 3 was cast from the metal of the first bell of the church, weighing over 1500 lbs., the gift in 1760 of Capt. Edward Cahill of London. It states "Recast A. D. 1831 Recast in the Chime A. D. 1859."
31The chime is operated from the ringing room in the third story of the tower, where the old-fashioned system of a frame into which the ends of the bell-ropes lead is in use. The five larger bells are provided with pivots and wheels, and can be rung as well as chimed.
33Chime procured through the exertions of three Harvard graduates, R. H. Dana, Jr., class of 1837; H. M. Parker, of 1839, and F. L. Batchelder, of 1844, who issued a circular in 1855 proposing the idea and calling for subscriptions from all graduates and undergraduates of the College. A fair held by the women of different religious organizations helped and St. Peter's Roman Catholic Church contributed a considerable sum. It has thus been considered a common object of interest for all of Cambridge.
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