*Location:

   Central United Methodist Church
   North Market Street (Hwy.63)
     at Avenue A West (Hwy.92)
   Oskaloosa, Iowa, USA
   LL: N 41.29643, W 92.64529

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*Player:

   (unknown)

*Contact:

   Central Methodist Church
   201 North Market Street
   Oskaloosa, IA  52577
   T: 515-673-6345, 641-672-2564
   E: centralumas@gmail.com

*Schedule:

   (dead)

*Remarks:

   Tower tubes by Deagan, harmonically
   tuned; donated by Chas.A. and Lena B.
   Kent of Chicago; installed by R.Lofink.

*Technical data:

   Chime-sized instrument (without any workable playing mechanism) of 16 tubular bells
   Pitch of heaviest bell is unknown
   Keyboard range:     ----  /    ----  
   Transposition is unknown
   The arrangement of tones and semitones is unknown.
   The whole instrument was installed in 1941
     with tubular bells made by Deagan 
   Auxiliary mechanisms: nIE   
   Tower details not available
   Year of latest technical information source is 2003

The church Website has a partial photo of the building in a rotating series on the home page.  The History page only links to a denominational history elsewhere.  The Facilities page implies that the building complex dates from 1899.

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 IA.
Index to all tower bell instruments in IA.

   This page was built from the database on  1-Aug-25
   based on textual data last updated on 2025/07/27
   and on technical data last updated on 2002/04/09