KANSAS CITY - IC : USA - MO

*Location:

   Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception
     (Roman Catholic)
   11th Street, west of Broadway
   Kansas City, Missouri, USA
   LL: N 39.10090, W 94.58938

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*Player:

   Mario Pearson, Director of Music
   E: mpearson@kcgolddome.org

*Contact:

   Immaculate Conception Rectory
   416 West 12th Street
   Kansas City, MO  64105-1497
   T: (816)842-0416   F: (816)842-3849
   E: (Webform; see kcgolddome.org)

*Schedule:

   (unknown)

*Technical data:

   Electric-keyboard (from organ) chime of 11 bells
   Pitch of heaviest bell is C  in the middle octave
   Transposition is nil (concert pitch)
   Keyboard range:     C D   /    NONE  
   There are two added semitones
   The whole instrument was installed in 1895
     with bells made by McShane     
   Year of latest technical information source is 2001

*Links:

The Cathedral home page alternates between the gold dome on the tower and a depiction of the whole building.  A page about Elements of the renovation currently underway has an interesting section about the bells.

An old postcard depicts the building, and the KC Library has supplied an accompanying brief history.
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Where this work lies in the sequence of output of the McShane bellfoundry.

Ranking among all North American chimes by size (number of bells).
Ranking among all North American chimes by year of completion.

Index to all tower bell instruments in MO.

*Status:

   This page was built from the database on 15-May-10
   based on textual data last updated on 2010/05/14
   and on technical data last updated on 2002/07/26

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