*Location:

   St.Augustine Catholic Church
   6th Avenue & Sterling Place
   Park Slope,
     Brooklyn, New York, USA
   LL: N 40.37844, W 73.97608

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*Player:

   (unknown)

*Contact:

   St.Augustine Catholic Church
   116 Sixth Avenue
   Brooklyn, NY  11217-3696
   T: (718)783-3132   F: (718)638-4669
   E: staugustinerc@verizon.net

*Schedule:

   (unknown)

*Remarks:

   Tower tubes by Deagan, donated by
   Msgr.E.W.McCarty of Pasadena CA,
   installed by C.J.Lustig

*Technical data:

   Electric-keyboard chime of 18 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      
   No auxiliary mechanisms known
   Tower details not available
   Year of latest technical information source is 2003

The church Website has a long history page, which includes an old picture of the building, but it doesn't mention the chime.

A page about the church organ offers a larger version of the same picture, plus a modern photo of the tower, and mentions this chime.

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 NY.
Index to all tower bell instruments in NY.

   This page was built from the database on 30-Nov-14
   based on textual data last updated on 2014/11/21
   and on technical data last updated on 2014/11/23