FORT WORTH - FM : USA - TX

*Location:

   East tower
   First UMC of Fort Worth
   5th & Florence Streets
   Fort Worth, Texas, USA
   LL: N 32.75201, W 97.33651
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*Player:

   (unknown)

*Contact:

   First UMC of Fort Worth
   800 West 5th Street
   Fort Worth, TX  76102-3599
   T: (817)336-7277   F: (817)336-2606
   E: (Webform @ fumcfw.org)

*Schedule:

   (unknown)

*Remarks:

   Tower tubes by Deagan,
   donated by Mrs. Wm. G. Newby,
   installed by R.Lofink

*Technical data:

   Electric-keyboard (from organ) 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 1930
     with tubular bells made by Deagan      
   No auxiliary mechanisms known
   Tower details not available
   Year of latest technical information source is 1930
*Links:

The church Website (which redirects here) is effectively invisible to older Web browsers.  There is no history.

Photo from a geocaching Website; the chime is in the east (right) 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 30-Nov-14
   based on textual data last updated on 2014/11/24
   and on technical data last updated on 2002/04/09
*Photos:

(none available)

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