SURREY : CANADA - BC

*Location:

   St.Helen's Anglican Church
   128th Street at 108th Avenue
   Surrey, British Columbia, Canada
   LL: N 49.1990, W 122.8676

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*Player:

   (unknown)

*Contact:

   St.Helen's Church
   10787 128th Street
   Surrey, BC  V3T 3A2
   T: (604)581-4800   F: (604)581-1490
   E: churchoffice@shawbiz.ca

*Schedule:

   (unknown)

*Remarks:

   Tower tubes, attributed to Harrington

*Technical data:

   Chime with Ellacombe stand of  8 tubular bells
   Pitch of heaviest bell is C  in the treble octave
   Transposition is up one octave
   Keyboard range:     C C   /    NONE  
   There are no added semitones
   The whole instrument was installed in unknown year
     by the maker cited in Remarks above
   Year of latest technical information source is 2008

*Links:

The church Website has a small photo of the building, showing multiple towers at the back, but does not mentions this instrument.

Photos by Alan Ellis:

• tubes, frame and action (view #1; 70 KB)
• tubes, frame and action (view #2; 57 KB)
• closeup of action and tube suspension (213 KB)

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 BC.
Index to all tower bell instruments in BC.

*Status:

   This page was built from the database on 28-Jun-08
   based on textual data last updated on 2008/05/13
   and on technical data last updated on 2008/05/13

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