LOS ANGELES - WBC : USA - CA

*Location:

   Wilshire Christian Church (DoC) 
     (was Wilshire Blvd Christian Church) 
   Wilshire Boulevard
     at South Normandie Avenue
   Los Angeles, California, USA

*Contact:

   Wilshire Christian Church 
   634 South Normandie Avenue 
   Los Angeles, CA  90005-2696 
   T: (213)382-6337   F: (213)382-8668

*Remarks:

   Tower tubes by Deagan, installed when
   this building was constructed by
   Wilshire Boulevard Christian Church. 
   Present congregation formed by 1940 
   merger of Wilshire Blvd Christian 
   (organized 1910), First Christian of 
   Los Angeles (organized 1874), and 
   Magnolia Avenue Christian (org.1904). 
   Note range assumed from Deagan's 
   general advertising material.

*Technical data:

   Chime-sized instrument or collection of 20 tubular bells
   Pitch of heaviest bell is D  in the middle octave
   Transposition is nil (concert pitch)
   Keyboard range:     D A   /    NONE  
   There are no missing bass semitones
   The whole instrument was installed in 1927
     with tubular bells made by Deagan      
   Year of latest technical information source is 2003

*Links:

The church Website has a small photo of the building in a montage at the top of some pages; a virtual tour begins with a larger photo of the tower.

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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).

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*Status:

   This page was built from the database on 31-Dec-04
   based on textual data last updated on 2004/12/31
   and on technical data last updated on 2003/05/29

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