FORT SMITH - FM : USA - AR

   Bourland Memorial Carillon

*Location:

   Bourland Memorial Tower
   First United Methodist Church
   North 15th and North C Streets
   Fort Smith, Arkansas, USA
   LL: N 35.38375, W 94.41479
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*Player:

   Nancy Vernon, Organist
   E: nvernon/@/fsfumc DOTorg

*Contact:

   First United Methodist Church
   200 North 15th Street
   Fort Smith, AR  72901-3218
   T: (479)782-5068   F: (479)784-9474
   E: Webform at fsfumc.org

*Schedule:

   Cambridge (Westminster) quarters;
   autoplay daily at noon and 6pm; manual
   play for Sunday and special services.

*Remarks:

   Memorial to Julia Bailey Bourland;
   given in 1946, tower completed 1947.
   Tower tubes by Deagan, installed by
   C.J.Gercken; originally played only from
   sanctuary organ; added roll player off
   main sanctuary, other controls in
   hallway thru tower base.
   Refurbished in 1990; chapel organ
   connected in 1997.

*Technical data:

   Electric-keyboard (from organ) carillon of 25 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 1947
     with tubular bells made by Deagan      
   Auxiliary mechanisms: OEQ4H 
   Tower details not available
   Year of latest technical information source is 2013
*Links:

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 AR.
Index to all tower bell instruments in AR.

*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 2013/10/03
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