*Location:

   Clock tower
   Hillside above Town of Avalon
   Chimes Tower Road
   Avalon, Santa Catalina Island,
     California, USA
   LL: N 33.34766, W 118.32843

Site locator map

*Player:

   Jani Eisenhut

*Contact:

   Santa Catalina Island Conservancy
   *parcel:
     125 Claressa Avenue
     Avalon, CA
   *postal:
     PO Box 2739
     Avalon, CA  90704-2739
   T: 310-510-2595
   - or -
   Catalina Chimes Tower Foundation
   E: Webform @ catalinachimes.org
   - or -
   Charles Canby
   242 Whittley Avenue
   PO Box 704
   Avalon, CA  90704
   C: 310-809-0661
   H&W: 310-510-1240   F: 310-510-0686
   E: cccanby@me.com

*Schedule:

   (unknown)

*Remarks:

   Tower tubes by Deagan, with extra
   keyboard; installed by C.J.Lustig,
   and later maintained by Roy Lofink.
   Publicized as a gift to the town by
   Mrs. William Wrigley Jr., though the 
   Deagan installation record shows that
   it was purchased by her husband.
   This is not to be confused with the
   Wrigley Memorial a few miles away.
   2024: total restoration of building and
   strikers in process.

*Technical data:

   Electric-keyboard chime of 20 tubular bells
   Pitch of heaviest bell is unknown
   Keyboard range:     ----  /    ----  
   Transposition is unknown
   The arrangement of tones and semitones is unknown.
   The whole instrument was installed in 1926
     with tubular bells made by Deagan 
   Auxiliary mechanisms: QHE   
   Tower details not available
   Year of latest technical information source is 2002

The Website of the Catalina Chimes Tower Foundation has history and many photos of restoration work.

clock tower

photo

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 CA.
Index to all tower bell instruments in CA.

   This page was built from the database on 29-Dec-24
   based on textual data last updated on 2024/12/22
   and on technical data last updated on 2002/04/01