WASHINGTON - NCC : USA - DC

*Location:

   National City Christian Church (DoC)
   14th Street and Massachusetts Avenue
   Washington, D.C., USA
   LL: N 38.90627, W 77.03233
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*Player:

   (unknown)

*Contact:

   National City Christian Church
   5 Thomas Circle, NW
   Washington, DC  20005-4153
   T: (202)232-0323   F: (202)797-0111
   E: mail@NationalCityCC.org
      mmcmahon@NationalCityCC.org

*Schedule:

   (unknown)

*Remarks:

   Tower tubes by Deagan,
   installed by C.J.Gercken;
   donor resided in Los Angeles.

*Technical data:

   Carillon-sized instrument (without any workable playing mechanism) 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: nEnO  
   Tower details not available
   Year of latest technical information source is 2003
*Links:

On the church Website, a history page mentions completion of the building, but not this chime.

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 DC.
Index to all tower bell instruments in DC.

*Status:
   This page was built from the database on 30-Nov-14
   based on textual data last updated on 2014/11/21
   and on technical data last updated on 2003/05/29
*Photos:

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