CALGARY - CE : CANADA - AB

*Location:

   Central United Church of Canada
     (was Central Methodist Church)
   7th Avenue & 1st Street, SW
   Calgary, Alberta, Canada
   LL: N 51.04647, W 114.06489
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*Player:

   Kathy Seibel, Director of Music
   E: kseibel@centralchurch.ca

*Contact:

   Central United Church
   131 7th Avenue S.W.
   Calgary, AB T2P 0W5
   T: (403)269-3701   F: (403)263-1646
   E: info@centralchurch.ca

*Schedule:

   Clock strike deactivated - unreliable.

*Remarks:

   Tower tubes by Deagan, presented by the
   Hon. R.B.Bennett, K.C., M.P.,
   and installed by C.J.Gercken

*Technical data:

   Electric-keyboard chime of 20 tubular bells
   Pitch of heaviest bell is unknown
   Transposition is unknown
   Keyboard range:     ----  /    ----  
   The arrangement of tones and semitones is unknown.
   The whole instrument was installed in 1927
     with tubular bells made by Deagan      
   Auxiliary mechanisms: Q4H   
   Tower details not available
   Year of latest technical information source is 2003
*Links:

On the church Website, there is a History page with an old photo of the building and tower, but it does not mention the chime.

Where this work lies in the sequence of output of the J.C.Deagan Company.

Ranking among all tower tube instruments by size (number of notes).

Index to all tower tube instruments in AB.
Index to all tower bell instruments in AB.

*Status:
   This page was built from the database on 11-Jan-19
   based on textual data last updated on 2019/01/11
   and on technical data last updated on 2003/06/01
*Photos:

(none available)

Explanations of page format and keyboard range are available.

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