PHILADELPHIA - OL : USA - PA

*Location:

   Korean United Church of Philadelphia
     (was Oak Lane M.E. Church)
   West Cheltenham Avenue
     (was City Line Avenue)
       at North 12th Street
   (or 7012 North 12th Street)
   Oak Lane,
     Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
   LL: N 40.06085, W 75.13552 z20
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*Player:

   (unknown)

*Contact:

   Korean United Church of Philadelphia
   1200 West Cheltenham Avenue
   Philadelphia, PA  19126-2116
   T: (215)927-0630   F: (215)927-0643
   E: kucp@kucp.org

*Schedule:

   (unknown)

*Remarks:

   Tower tubes by Deagan, donated by
   Miss Emma Gildemeyer of Melrose Park,
   installed by Roy Lofink.
   Also a conventional bell from previous
   building on Old York Road.
   Building purchased in 1991.

*Technical data:

   Electric-keyboard chime of 20 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 1926
     with tubular bells made by Deagan      
   No auxiliary mechanisms known
   Tower details not available
   Year of latest technical information source is 1926
*Links:

The church Website (mostly in Korean) has a photo of the building on the Introduction page (01 in the menubar).

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 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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