DEATH VALLEY : USA - CA

*Location:

   Scotty's Castle
   Death Valley National Park
   Death Valley, California, USA
   LL: N 37.03225, W 117.34138
*Originally known as:
   Johnson's Death Valley Ranch
   Bonnie Clare, Nevada
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*Player:

   (unknown)

*Contact:

   Death Valleu National Park
   P.O.Box 579
   Death Valley, CA  92328-0579
   T: (760)786-3200   F: (760)786-3246

*Schedule:

   Grounds open 8:30am-4:15pm (house
   accessible only via guided tours);
   automatic play three times a day.

*Remarks:

   Tower tubes by Deagan,
   purchased by A.M.Johnson of Chicago,
   installed by R.Lofink

*Technical data:

   Electric-keyboard 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 1930
     with tubular bells made by Deagan      
   Auxiliary mechanisms: EO    
   Tower details not available
   Year of latest technical information source is 2001
*Links:

Scotty's Castle

The English Wikipedia article about the property has a clickable photo of the building, but doesn't mention this chime.

The National Park Service has several pages about this place, but the chime is not mentioned.

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 CA.
Index to all tower bell instruments in CA.

*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 2002/04/12
*Photos:

(none available)

Explanations of page format and keyboard range are available.

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