PHILADELPHIA - STJL/2 : USA - PA

*Location:

   Wanamaker Mausoleum
   Church of the St.James-the-Less
     (Episcopal)
   West Hunting Park Avenue, between
     Clearfield Street and Indiana Avenue
   Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
   LL: N 40.00333, W 75.18349

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*Player:

   (unknown)

*Contact:

   St.James-the-Less Rectory
   3227 West Clearfield Street
   Philadelphia, PA  19132-1822
   T: (215)229-5767   F: (215)229-2445
   - or -
   Charles F. Rutherford, Sexton
   3230 West Clearfield Street
   T: (215)229-5025

*Schedule:

   Cambridge (Westminster) quarters.

*Remarks:

   Tower tubes by Deagan, hung surrounding
   the frame of a 15-bell chime, by the
   Wanamaker Organ Shop.  Electric key-
   board mounted on inside of tower door.
   Also reported as 19 notes.

*Technical data:

   Electric-keyboard chime of 16 tubular bells
   Pitch of heaviest bell is unknown
   Transposition is unknown
   Keyboard range:     ----  /    ----  
   The whole instrument was installed in 1921
     with tubular bells made by Deagan      
   Year of latest technical information source is 1994

*Links:

About the Wanamaker Mausoleum

An article about the donor (search the page for "mausoleum").

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 PA, including the 15-bell conventional chime (STJL/1)

*Status:

   This page was built from the database on 25-Jul-09
   based on textual data last updated on 2009/07/10
   and on technical data last updated on 2002/05/23

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