DETROIT - STT : USA - MI

*Location:

   Northwest tower
   St.Theresa of Avila RC Church
   Quincy and Pingree Streets
   Detroit, Michigan, USA
   LL: N 42.36359, W 83.12004
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*Player:

   (unknown)

*Contact:

   (unknown)

*Schedule:

   (unknown)

*Remarks:

   Tower tubes by Deagan, installed by
   C.J.Gercken.  Church closed in 1989;
   school building was occupied by a
   charter school 1999-2016.

*Technical data:

   Chime-sized instrument or collection of 10 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 1937
     with tubular bells made by Deagan      
   No auxiliary mechanisms known
   Tower details not available
   Year of latest technical information source is 2003
*Links:

The English Wikipedia article about the building has a large photo of the twin-towered facade.

A 2016 news article on closure of the charter school has a photo of the front of the church and its twin towers.

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 MI.
Index to all tower bell instruments in MI.

*Status:
   This page was built from the database on 11-Jan-19
   based on textual data last updated on 2019/01/11
   and on technical data last updated on 2003/05/29
*Photos:

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