HUNTSVILLE : USA - TX

*Location:

   First United Methodist Church 
   Sam Houston Avenue at 10th Street 
   Huntsville, Texas, USA

*Player:

   Dr.David Fleming, Organist

*Contact:

   First United Methodist Church 
   1016 Sam Houston Avenue 
   Huntsville, TX  77320-3999 
   T: (936)295-5441   F: (936)295-9500 
   E: bhay@huntsvillefumc.org  [pastor]

*Schedule:

   Every Sunday

*Remarks:

   Tower tubes by Deagan; added semitone 
   is flat 7th; two-octave keyboard. 
   Also in tower is a conventional bell. 
   Church has original Deagan music book,
   with additions by Wm. Pugh.

*Technical data:

   Electric-keyboard chime of 10 tubular bells
   Pitch of heaviest bell is F  in the middle octave
   Transposition is nil (concert pitch)
   Keyboard range:     F G   /    NONE  
   There is one added semitone
   The whole instrument was installed in 1933
     with tubular bells made by Deagan      
   Year of latest technical information source is 2005

*Links:

The church Website mentions the chime on the first About Our Church page. That page has a photo of the building, and there is another one in the Photo Gallery; the 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 26-Sep-05
   based on textual data last updated on 2005/09/08
   and on technical data last updated on 2005/09/08

Explanations of page format and keyboard range are available.

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