*Location:

   First Baptist Church
   South South Street at
     East Franklin Street (U.S.29)
   Gastonia, North Carolina, USA
   LL: 35.26188, W 81.18417

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*Player:

   (unknown)

*Contact:

   First Baptist Church of Gastonia
   *parcel:
     2650 Union Road
     Gastonia, NC  28054
   *postel:
     PO Box 6298
     Gastonia, NC  28056
   T: (704)865-8576   F: (704)865-8579
   E: am_foy2/@/yahoo DOTcom

*Schedule:

   (unknown)

*Remarks:

   Tower tubes by Deagan,
   donated by Ladies Aid Society,
   installed by C.J.Lustig.
   Congregation has relocated to suburbs,
   but church building remains intact.

*Technical data:

   Electric-keyboard (from organ) chime 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 1927
     with tubular bells made by Deagan      
   No auxiliary mechanisms known
   Tower details not available
   Year of latest technical information source is 1927

The church Website has no history, and therefore no indication of when it moved from the downtown building where the chime is located to the present suburban location; but it must have been after 1967, when a new organ was dedicated in the old building (which still stands).

Historic photo

Postcard view

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 NC.
Index to all tower bell instruments in NC.

   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 2014/11/21