WASHINGTON - NC/3 : USA - DC

*Location:

   Little Sanctuary
   St.Alban's School
   The National Cathedral School for Boys
   Pilgrim Road
   Mount Saint Alban
   Massachusetts and Wisconsin Avenues, NW
   Washington, D.C., USA
   LL: N 38.92879, W 77.07179

   Zion Episcopal Church
   Wappingers Falls, New York, USA
   (See in 'Chimes' section.)

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*Player:

   (unknown;
   formerly played regularly by students)

*Contact:

   Benjamin Hutto,
     Performing Arts Director
   St.Alban's School
   Massachusetts and Wisconsin Avenues, NW
   Washington, DC  20016-5095
   T: (202)537-6435   F: (202)537-5613
   E: sta_Communications@cathedral.org
      bhutto@cathedral.org

*Schedule:

   Rarely used

*Remarks:

   Tower tubes, with nameplate by
   U.S.Tubular, but probably made originally
   by Walter H. Durfee in the 1890s;
   taut-rope clavier.

*Technical data:

   Chime with Ellacombe stand of 15 tubular bells
   Pitch of heaviest bell is unknown
   Transposition is unknown
   Keyboard range:     ----  /    ----  
   The whole instrument was installed in 1906
     by the maker cited in Remarks above
   Year of latest technical information source is 1992

*Links:

The school Website seems not to have any pictures of its buildings.  However, there is one picture of the cathedral itself (seen through a school window); the Gloria in Excelsis central tower houses a 10-bell ring and a 53-bell carillon (see the GCNA Website for details).

Where this work lies in the sequence of output of its maker.

Ranking among all tower tube instruments by size (number of notes).

Index to all tower tube instruments in DC.

*Status:

   This page was built from the database on  8-Jul-08
   based on textual data last updated on 2008/07/05
   and on technical data last updated on 2001/08/08

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