WAKEFIELD : USA - MA

*Location:

   First Parish Congregational Church
     (UCC)
   Church Street at Lake Avenue
   Wakefield, Massachusetts, USA
   LL: N 42.50730, W 71.07288

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*Player:

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*Contact:

   First Congregational Church
   *parcel:
     1 Church Street
     Wakefield, MA  01880
   *postal:
     P.O.Box M
     Wakefield, MA  01880-0301
   T: (781)245-1644   F: (781)557-1000
   E: fpccx1644@aol.com
      office@fpccwakefield.com

*Schedule:

  (unknown)

*Remarks:

   Tower tubes by Deagan; also an 1850
   Naylor-Vickers steel bell.
   Original Deagan keyboard sold 1961;
   Deagan roll-player remains.
   Oct'06: to be renovated by Top Rung,
   replacing locally-built electric
   keyboard with a Deagan original.

*Technical data:

   Electric-keyboard chime of 16 tubular bells
   Pitch of heaviest bell is E  in the middle octave
   Transposition is nil (concert pitch)
   Keyboard range:     E G   /    NONE  
   There are no missing bass semitones
   The whole instrument was installed in 1928
     with tubular bells made by Deagan      
   Year of latest technical information source is 2003

*Links:

The church Website has a photo of the building on the home page, and there is a full page (with photos) about the project to restore this 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 MA.

*Status:

   This page was built from the database on 20-Jan-07
   based on textual data last updated on 2006/10/06
   and on technical data last updated on 2006/10/06

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