*Location:

   Bethany Lutheran Church (ELCA)
   (was Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church)
   South 11th Street at 1st Avenue South
   Escanaba, Michigan, USA
   LL: N 45.74448, W 87.06286

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*Player:

   (unknown)

*Contact:

   Bethany Lutheran Church
   202 South 11th Street
   Escanaba, MI  49829
   T: 906-786-6642   F: 906-786-1622
   E: info/@/bethanyescanaba DOTcom

*Schedule:

   (unknown)

*Remarks:

   Tower tubes by Deagan;
   note range assumed from Deagan's
   general advertising material.

*Technical data:

   Chime-sized instrument or collection of 10 tubular bells
   Pitch of heaviest bell is F  in the middle octave
   Transposition is nil (concert pitch)
   Keyboard range:     F G   /    NONE  
   There are two added semitones
   The whole instrument was installed in 1928
     with tubular bells made by Deagan      
   No auxiliary mechanisms known
   Tower details not available
   Year of latest technical information source is 1960

On the church Website, a history timeline indicates that the tower chimes were installed in 1924 in memory of veterans of WW I.  The home page has a photo of the building.  Steeples were restored and repaired in 2019.

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.

   This page was built from the database on 26-Jul-23
   based on textual data last updated on 2023/06/08
   and on technical data last updated on 2004/03/21