MADISON : USA - IN

*Location:

   Christ Church (Episcopal)
   Mulberry Street north of Third Street
   Madison, Indiana, USA
   LL: N 38.73770, W 85.37862

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*Player:

   Richard Dickie
   9850 East Upper Dry Fork Road
   Madison, IN  47250-8586
   T: (812)265-4174
   E: dryfork@juno.com

*Contact:

   Christ Church
   506 Mulberry Street
   Madison, IN  47250-3440
   T: (812)265-2158
   E: rick_draper@juno.com  [rector]

*Schedule:

   Every Sunday

*Remarks:

   Tower tubes by Walter H. Durfee & Co.,
   Providence, RI.  Original chiming
   rack locally modified as a chimestand,
   labelled in actual pitches Ab-Db;
   added semitones are flat 2nd and its
   octave (flat 9th), sharp 4th, flat 7th.
   Also a Buckeye/E.W.Vanduzen bell, 1904,
   hung for swinging and tolling.

*Technical data:

   Traditional chime (chimestand) of 15 tubular bells
   Pitch of heaviest bell is G# in the bass octave
   Transposition is nil (concert pitch)
   Keyboard range:     G#C#  /    NONE  
   There are four added semitones
   The whole instrument was installed in 1904
     by the maker cited in Remarks above
   Year of latest technical information source is 2005

*Links:

The church Website has a photo of the building and tower.

Where this work lies in the sequence of output of its maker.

Ranking among all tower tube instruments by size (number of notes).

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*Status:

   This page was built from the database on  8-Jul-08
   based on textual data last updated on 2008/07/05
   and on technical data last updated on 2005/10/30

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