*Location:

   Wanamaker Mausoleum
   Church of St.James-the-Less
     (Episcopal)
   West Hunting Park Avenue, between
     Clearfield Street and Indiana Avenue
   Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
   LL: N 40.00333, W 75.18349

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*Player:

   (unknown)

*Contact:

   St.James School
   3217 West Clearfield Street
   Philadelphia, PA  19132-1822
   T: 215-226-1276
   - or -
   David J. Kasievich, Head of School
   E: dkasievich/@/stjamesphila DOTorg
   - or -
   Charles F. Rutherford, Sexton
   3230 West Clearfield Street
   T: 215-229-5025
   - or -
   St.Mark's Episcopal Church
   1625 Locust Street
   Philadelphia, PA  19103-6304
   T: 215-735-1416
   E: semullen@saintmarksphiladelphia.org
      Webform @ saintmarksphiladelphia.org

*Schedule:

   Unique quarter-chime tune;
   otherwise disused

*Remarks:

   Tower tubes by Deagan, hung surrounding
   the frame of a 15-bell chime, by the
   Wanamaker Organ Shop and C.J.Lustig.
   Electric keyboard (2 octaves G-G)
   mounted on inside of tower door;
   actual range not yet determined.
   Church is now a mission of St.Mark's,
   Locust Street (see STMKL in Rings
   section).

*Technical data:

   Electric-keyboard chime of 19 tubular bells
   Pitch of heaviest bell is unknown
   Transposition is unknown
   Keyboard range:     ----  /    NONE  
   The arrangement of tones and semitones is unknown.
   The whole instrument was installed in 1921
     with tubular bells made by Deagan      
   Auxiliary mechanisms: Q4    
   Tower details not available
   Year of latest technical information source is 2022

Our article about this and other Wanamaker bells

About the Wanamaker Mausoleum

An article about the donor (search the page for "mausoleum").

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, including the 15-bell conventional chime (STJL/1) in the same tower.
Index to all tower bell instruments in PA.

   This page was built from the database on  7-Jan-23
   based on textual data last updated on 2022/12/06
   and on technical data last updated on 2022/12/06