BROOKVILLE : USA - PA

*Location:

   Brookville Presbyterian Church (PCUSA)
   Main Street (U.S.Hwy.322)
     at White & Valley Streets
   Brookville, Pennsylvania, USA
   LL: N 41.16107, W 79.08318
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*Player:

   (unknown)

*Contact:

   Brookville Presbyterian Church
   *parcel:
     100 N. White Street
     Brookville, PA  15825
   *postal:
     Main & White Streets
     Brookville, PA  15825
   *manse:
     120 N. White Street
     Brookville, PA  15825
   T: 814-849-2413   F: 814-849-7929
   E: brookvillepresbyterian@gmail.com

*Schedule:

   (unknown)

*Remarks:

   Tower tubes by Deagan,
   donated by Mary A. Corbett,
   installed by C.J.Lustig.
   Keyboard (dead) at organ console; roll
   player at balcony level below tower.
   Also a swinging bell of about 750#.

*Technical data:

   Electric-keyboard chime of 16 tubular bells
   Pitch of heaviest bell is E  in the middle octave
   Transposition is nil (concert pitch)
   Keyboard range:     E G   /    NONE  
   There are no missing bass semitones
   The whole instrument was installed in 1923
     with tubular bells made by Deagan      
   Auxiliary mechanisms: E     
   Tower details: 
     Height of console:                  1 meters above ground
     Height of lowest level of bells:    . meters above ground
     Height of highest level of bells:   . meters above ground
     Belfry openness:  80%
   Year of latest technical information source is 2003
*Links:

The church Website has a paragraph about the chime on the Music page, accompanied by a small photo of the belfry.

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 PA.
Index to all tower bell instruments in PA.

*Status:
   This page was built from the database on 26-Jul-23
   based on textual data last updated on 2023/06/22
   and on technical data last updated on 2023/06/22
*Photos:

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