AVALON : USA - CA

*Location:

   Clock tower
   Hillside above Town of Avalon
   Chimes Tower Road
   Avalon, Santa Catalina Island,
     California, USA
   LL: N 33.34766, W 118.32843
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*Player:

   (unknown)

*Contact:

   Santa Catalina Island Conservancy
   125 Claressa Avenue / PO Box 2739
   Avalon, CA  90704-2739
   T: (310)510-2595

*Schedule:

   (unknown)

*Remarks:

   Tower tubes by Deagan, with extra
   keyboard; installed by C.J.Lustig,
   and later maintained by Roy Lofink.
   Publicized as a gift to the town by
   Mrs. William Wrigley Jr., though the 
   Deagan installation record shows that
   it was purchased by her husband.
   This is not to be confused with the
   Wrigley Memorial a few miles away.

*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 1926
     with tubular bells made by Deagan      
   Auxiliary mechanisms: QHE   
   Tower details not available
   Year of latest technical information source is 2002
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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).

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*Status:
   This page was built from the database on 30-Nov-14
   based on textual data last updated on 2014/11/24
   and on technical data last updated on 2002/04/01
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