*Location:

   St.John's United Church of Christ
   South Broad and East Prospect Streets
   Nazareth, Pennsylvania, USA
   LL: N 40.73837, W 75.30941

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*Player:

   Church members

*Contact:

   St.John's UCC Church
   183 South Broad Street
   Nazareth, PA  18064-2153
   T: 610-759-0893   F: 610-759-0868
   T: 610-759-3090
   E: mail/@/sjuccnaz DOTorg

*Schedule:

   (unknown)

*Remarks:

   Tower tubes by Durfee, originally
   played by loose-rope rack in tower;
   new baton keyboard at balcony level
   made 1989 by J.G.Saenger, who also
   revamped the action in 2005.
   Added semitones: sharp 4th, flat 7th,
   plus sharp tonic and its octave:
     C,#,D,E,F,#,G,A,#,B,C,#,D,E,F
   Keys for missing notes (including
   treble G) are present and sprung.

*Technical data:

   Traditional chime (baton keyboard) of 15 tubular bells
   Pitch of heaviest bell is E  in the middle octave
   Keyboard range:     C F   /    NONE  
   Transposition is up  4 semitone(s), i.e., from C to E 
   There are four added semitones
   The presence or absence of a practice console is unknown
   The whole instrument was installed in 19??
     by the maker cited in Remarks above
   No auxiliary mechanisms known
   Tower details not available
   Year of latest technical information source is 2012

The church Website has on its home page a drawing of the building and its unusually oriented bell tower.

Where this work lies in the sequence of output of its maker.

Ranking among all tower tube instruments by size (number of notes).

Index to all tower tube instruments in PA.
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   This page was built from the database on 14-Oct-24
   based on textual data last updated on 2012/08/15
   and on technical data last updated on 2012/07/05