NORMAN : USA - OK

*Location:

   McFarlin Memorial United Methodist
     Church
   South University Boulevard
     at West Apache Street
   Norman, Oklahoma, USA
   LL: N 35.21540, W 97.44557
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*Player:

   (unknown)

*Contact:

   McFarlin Methodist Church
   *parcel:
     419 South University Boulevard
     Norman, OK  73069
   *postal:
     PO Box 6390
     Norman, OK  73070-6390
   T: (405)321-3484   F: (405)321-3498
   E: music@mcfarlinumc.org

*Schedule:

   (Currently inoperative)

*Remarks:

   Tower tubes by Deagan; missing 2 lowest
   and 1 highest semitones; 2-octave
   keyboard originally offstage near
   organ, but now in tower room.

*Technical data:

   Electric-keyboard chime of 18 tubular bells
   Pitch of heaviest bell is D  in the middle octave
   Transposition is nil (concert pitch)
   Keyboard range:     D A   /    NONE  
   The arrangement of tones and/or semitones
     is non-standard; see Remarks above.
   The whole instrument was installed in 1924
     with tubular bells made by Deagan      
   No auxiliary mechanisms known
   Tower details not available
   Year of latest technical information source is 2013
*Links:

On the church Website, see the "About Us" page, "The Building" paragraph.

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 OK.
Index to all tower bell instruments in OK.

*Status:
   This page was built from the database on 16-Oct-13
   based on textual data last updated on 2013/10/03
   and on technical data last updated on 2013/10/03
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