NAZARETH : USA - PA

*Location:

   St.John's United Church of Christ
   Broad and Prospect Streets
   Nazareth, Pennsylvania, USA
   LL: N 40.73837, W 75.30941

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*Player:

   Church members
   - and -
   Jim Saenger
   E: chamade@early.com

*Contact:

   St.John's UCC Church
   183 South Broad Street
   Nazareth, PA  18064-2153
   T: (610)759-0893   F: (610)759-0868
   T: (610)759-3090

*Schedule:

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*Remarks:

   Tower tubes by Durfee, originally
   played by loose-rope rack; new baton
   keyboard made 1989 by J.G.Saenger, who
   also revamped the action in 2005.
   Added semitones: sharp 4th, flat 7th,
   plus sharp tonic and its octave:
     C,#,D,E,F,#,G,A,#,B,C,#,D,E,F
   Keys for missing notes (including
   treble G) are present and sprung.

*Technical data:

   Traditional chime (baton keyboard) of 15 tubular bells
   Pitch of heaviest bell is E  in the middle octave
   Transposition is up  4 semitone(s)
   Keyboard range:     C F   /    NONE  
   There are four added semitones
   The whole instrument was installed in 1904
     by the maker cited in Remarks above
   Year of latest technical information source is 2006

*Links:

The church Website has on its home page a drawing of the building and its unusually oriented bell tower.

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*Status:

   This page was built from the database on 24-Sep-08
   based on textual data last updated on 2008/09/01
   and on technical data last updated on 2006/01/13

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