HEWLETT : USA - NY

*Location:

   St.Joseph's Catholic Church
   Broadway near East Rockaway Road
   Hewlett, Long Island, New York, USA
   LL: N 40.64120, W 73.69906
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*Player:

   (unknown)

*Contact:

   St.Joseph Parish
   1346 Broadway
   Hewlett, NY  11557
   T: (516)374-0290   F: (516)374-2598
   E: saintjoeinfo@aol.com

*Schedule:

   (unknown)

*Remarks:

   Tower tubes by Deagan,
   donated by Rev. John F. Farrell,
   installed by C.J.Gercken

*Technical data:

   Electric-keyboard chime 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 1931
     with tubular bells made by Deagan      
   No auxiliary mechanisms known
   Tower details not available
   Year of latest technical information source is 1960
*Links:

The Church Website opens with a photo of the building and its twin towers; it's not yet known which one holds 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.

*Status:
   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
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