LA CRESCENTA : USA - CA

   Emory Ewart Watchorn Memorial Chimes

*Location:

   St.Luke's of the Mountains Episcopal
     Church
   Foothill Boulevard at Rosemont Avenue
   La Crescenta, California, USA
   LL: N 34.22138, 118.23474

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*Player:

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*Contact:

   St.Luke's of the Mountains Episcopal
     Church
   2563 Foothill Boulevard
   La Crescenta, CA  91214-3508
   T: (818)248-3639   F: (818)248-9740
   - or -
   Ted Baumgart  [local maintenance]
   E: baumgartstudio@att.net

*Schedule:

   Cambridge (Westminster) quarters,
   0900-1900; manually for church services.

*Remarks:

   Tower tubes by Deagan; added semitone
   is flat 7th.

*Technical data:

   Electric-keyboard chime of 10 tubular bells
   Pitch of heaviest bell is F  in the middle octave
   Transposition is nil (concert pitch)
   Keyboard range:     F G   /    NONE  
   There is one added semitone
   The whole instrument was installed in 1926
     with tubular bells made by Deagan      
   Year of latest technical information source is 2010

*Links:

The church page on the Diocesan Website has a small photo of the building, showing its bell tower.

A different photo accompanies a news article about how the ECUSA seized the church property from the Anglican-minded congregation in 2009.

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  1-Sep-10
   based on textual data last updated on 2010/06/11
   and on technical data last updated on 2010/06/11

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