ABILENE : USA - KS

*Location:

   Brown Memorial Home for the Aged
   Hawk Road & 2000 Avenue
   Abilene, Kansas, USA
   LL: N 38.88109, W 97.20275
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*Player:

   (unknown)

*Contact:

   Brown Memorial Foundation
   1974 Hawk Road
   Abilene, KS  67410-6352
   T: (785)263-1501

*Schedule:

   (unknown)

*Remarks:

   Tower tubes by Deagan;
   donated by C.L.Brown, President;
   installed by R.Lofink.
   Repaired in 1980 by Wm.T.Pugh, now of
   Top Rung Tower Chime Service.

*Technical data:

   Electric-keyboard chime of 16 tubular bells
   Pitch of heaviest bell is unknown
   Transposition is unknown
   Keyboard range:     ----  /    ----  
   The arrangement of tones and semitones is unknown.
   The whole instrument was installed in 1929
     with tubular bells made by Deagan      
   Auxiliary mechanisms: EQ4   
   Tower details not available
   Year of latest technical information source is 2002
*Links:

Brown Memorial Home for the Aged

A historical article on the legacy of C.L.Brown has an old photo of the building.

A more recent photo is on the Top Rung Website.

A page about the man who established the Home (and laid the foundations for Sprint).

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 KS.
Index to all tower bell instruments in KS.

*Status:
   This page was built from the database on 30-Nov-14
   based on textual data last updated on 2014/11/24
   and on technical data last updated on 2002/05/07
*Photos:

(none available)

Explanations of page format and keyboard range are available.

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