CORPUS CHRISTI - C : USA - TX

*Location:

   Corpus Christi Cathedral
   Upper Broadway and Lipan Street
   Corpus Christi, Texas, USA
   LL: N 27.79432, W 97.39665
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*Player:

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*Contact:

   Corpus Christi Cathedral
   505 North Upper Broadway
   Corpus Christi, TX  78401-2340
   T: (361)883-4213   F: (361)883-1918
   E: info@cccathedral.com

*Schedule:

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*Remarks:

   Tower tubes by Deagan; restored by
   Top Rung Tower Chime Service using parts
   recycled from St.Patrick's Church,
   Miami Beach, Florida.  Shorter tower
   holds three bells of former cathedral,
   c.1876-81.

*Technical data:

   Carillon-sized instrument or collection of 32 tubular bells
   Pitch of heaviest bell is unknown
   Transposition is unknown
   Keyboard range:     ----  /    ----  
   The whole instrument was installed in 1946
     with tubular bells made by Deagan      
   Year of latest technical information source is 1960

*Links:

The cathedral Website has a photo of the façade and its asymmetric towers.  This chime is in the taller 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.

*Status:

   This page was built from the database on 29-Sep-06
   based on textual data last updated on 2006/09/28
   and on technical data last updated on 2004/03/21


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