W. J. Murphy Memorial

*Location:

   Historic First Church (PCUSA)
     (was First Presbyterian Church)
   4th Avenue and West Monroe Street
   Phoenix, Arizona, USA
   LL: N 33.45055, W 112.07939

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*Player:

   (unknown)

*Contact:

   Historic First Church
   402 West Monroe Street
   Phoenix, AZ  85003-1620
   T: (602)254-6356  F: (602)254-5312

*Schedule:

   Daily every half hour

*Remarks:

   Tower tubes by Deagan, installed by
   C.J.Gercken.
   Note range assumed from Deagan's
   general advertising material.
   Restored by Williamson-Warne;
   maintained by Top Rung.

*Technical data:

   Chime-sized instrument or collection of 16 tubular bells
   Pitch of heaviest bell is E  in the middle octave
   Transposition is nil (concert pitch)
   Keyboard range:     E G   /    NONE  
   The arrangement of tones and semitones is unknown.
   The whole instrument was installed in 1928
     with tubular bells made by Deagan      
   No auxiliary mechanisms known
   Tower details not available
   Year of latest technical information source is 1998

The church Website pictures the bell tower on the home page, and mentions the chime on a history page.

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 AZ.
Index to all tower bell instruments in AZ.

   This page was built from the database on 28-Feb-19
   based on textual data last updated on 2019/02/27
   and on technical data last updated on 2004/12/31