TAUNTON - STM : USA - MA

*Location:

   St.Mary's Catholic Church
   St.Mary's Square,
     Broadway at Church Street
   Taunton, Massachusetts, USA
   LL: N 41.90719, W 71.09253
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*Player:

   (unknown)

*Contact:

   St.Mary's Rectory
   14 St.Mary's Square
   Taunton, MA  02780-3184
   T: (508)822-7116   F: (508)822-7117
   E: stmarystaunton@verizon.net

*Schedule:

   (unknown)

*Remarks:

   Tower tubes by Deagan,
   installed by Roy Lofink.
   Verdin replaced controls and action
   in 1984; by 1988 it was again dead.

*Technical data:

   Chime-sized instrument (without any workable playing mechanism) of 16 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 1923
     with tubular bells made by Deagan      
   Auxiliary mechanisms: nI    
   Tower details not available
   Year of latest technical information source is 2001
*Links:

An English Wikipedia article presents a brief history and a photo of the tower.

The parish school Website has a page about the parish, with a drawing of the building.

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 MA.
Index to all tower bell instruments in MA.

*Status:
   This page was built from the database on 30-Nov-14
   based on textual data last updated on 2014/11/23
   and on technical data last updated on 2001/07/29
*Photos:

(none available)

Explanations of page format and keyboard range are available.

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