CORPUS CHRISTI - C : USA - TX

*Location:

   Corpus Christi Cathedral
   Upper Broadway and Lipan Street
   Corpus Christi, Texas, USA
   LL: N 27.79432, W 97.39665
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*Player:

   (unknown)

*Contact:

   Corpus Christi Cathedral
   505 North Upper Broadway
   Corpus Christi, TX  78401-2340
   T: (361)883-4213   F: (361)883-1918
   E: info@cccathedral.com

*Schedule:

   (unusable - salt air damage)

*Remarks:

   Tower tubes by Deagan, installed by
   C.J.Gercken; restored by Top Rung Tower
   Chime Service using parts recycled from
   St.Patrick's Church, Miami Beach,
   Florida.  Shorter tower holds three
   bells of former cathedral, c.1876-81.

*Technical data:

   Carillon-sized instrument or collection of 32 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 1946
     with tubular bells made by Deagan      
   No auxiliary mechanisms known
   Tower details not available
   Year of latest technical information source is 1960
*Links:

The cathedral Website has a photo of the façade and its asymmetric towers.  This chime is in the taller tower.

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 TX.
Index to all tower bell instruments in TX.

*Status:
   This page was built from the database on 11-Jan-19
   based on textual data last updated on 2019/01/11
   and on technical data last updated on 2004/03/21
*Photos:

(none available)

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