*Location:
Lacawac Sanctuary Sanctuary Road Lake Ariel, Pennsylvania, USA LL: N 41.37836, W 75.29156*Former locations:
1937-95:
(in storage)
1928-37:
"Pen-y-Bryn" (L.A.Watres residence)
Elmhurst Boulevard
Scranton, Pennsylvania, USA
- Site locator map
*Player:
(unknown)
*Contact:
Lacawac Sanctuary 94 Sanctuary Road Lake Ariel, PA 18436 T: 570-689-9494 F: 570-689-2017 E: info@lacawac.org
*Schedule:
(unknown)
*Remarks:
Tower tubes by Deagan, originally installed by C.J.Gercken. Original keyboard and controls destroyed by fire in 1937. Reinstalled in new tower by volunteers; was playable by a home-grown computer system, now defunct; played by hand with rubber-coated mallet. Formerly listed as SCRANTON - LW.
*Technical data:
Chime-sized instrument with action described in Remarks above of 16 tubular bells
Pitch of heaviest bell is E in the middle octave
Keyboard range: E G / NONE
Transposition is nil (concert pitch)
There are no missing bass semitones
The whole instrument was installed in 1928
with tubular bells made by Deagan
Auxiliary mechanisms: nEnI
Tower details:
Height of console: 0 meters above ground
Height of lowest level of bells: 5 meters above ground
Height of highest level of bells: 5 meters above ground
Belfry openness: 98%
Year of latest technical information source is 2012
*Links:
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The sanctuary Website
has an illustrated page about the 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.
Index to all tower bell instruments in PA.
This page was built from the database on 2-Mar-25 based on textual data last updated on 2025/01/15 and on technical data last updated on 2012/07/05
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