ORWIGSBURG : USA - PA

*Location:

   St.John's United Church of Christ
     (was St.John's Reformed Church)
   East Market & South Sherman Streets
   Orwigsburg, Pennsylvania, USA
   LL: N 40.65416, W 76.09875
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*Player:

   (unknown)

*Contact:

   St.John's United Church of Christ
   *parcel:
     232-236 East Market Street
     Orwigsburg, PA  17961
   *postal:
     PO Box 216
     Orwigsburg, PA  17961-0216
   T: (570)366-2255
   E: sjucc@verizon.net

*Schedule:

   (unknown)

*Remarks:

   Tower tubes by Deagan,
   donated by Alfred S. Miller,
   installed by Roy Lofink

*Technical data:

   Electric-keyboard chime of 16 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 1934
     with tubular bells made by Deagan      
   No auxiliary mechanisms known
   Tower details not available
   Year of latest technical information source is 1934
*Links:

The church Website opens with a photo of the building.  The About page 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 PA.
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*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 2002/04/09
*Photos:

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