John Calhoun Deagan patented the dinner chime in the early years of the 20 th century, and Deagan was the preëminent name in the field.

The chimes were made in both nickel plated (organ chimes) and aluminum (aluminum chimes) sets with ranges varying from 1 1/2 octaves (15 chimes) to 4 octaves (49 chimes). The sets are suspended on a floor rack with the larger sets requiring two.

J. C. Deagan, Inc. is a former musical instrument manufacturing company that developed and produced instruments from the late 19th- to mid-20th century. It was founded in 1880 by John Calhoun Deagan and initially manufactured glockenspiels.

the deagan 200 series dinner chime. A relative newcomer to the lineup in the late 1920s, the 200 Series was the least expensive dinner chime in the Deagan fold. The 200 Series consisted of four chime plates tuned in ascending order to the notes G, C, E, and G and mounted above brass tubular resonators.

Specializing in DEAGAN TOWER CHIME Service, Restoration, and Sales In business since 1987, Top Rung Tower Chime has restored forty Deagan Tower Chime Systems. Four of these restorations involved the removal of failed replacement equipment and the installation of restored Deagan equipment.

The Deagan 400 series dinner chime sold at retail for $9.00. The 400 series chime was used for local identification for WTMJ Milwaukee in 1931, of which at least one recording still exists, and on the recording of “The Fourth Chime” as heard on D–Day, June 6, 1944.

"Deagan Cathedral Chimes" are the only Cathedral Chimes on the market that are perfect in tune.

This set of J.C. Deagan organ chimes has a 2.7-octave range, with low F and G bass chimes and then chromatically running from C to F. Also known as Deagan shaker chimes, these vintage chimes comprise the third largest set of approximately forty remaining in the world.

"Deagan Organ Chimes" have a marvelously rich quadruple tone, very similar to that of a grand Pipe Organ, but of a clearer and more bell like quality.

Deagan Organ Chimes "Hey guys, what are those things?" John Calhoun Deagan (b. 1853, d. 1934) patented the Deagan Organ Chimes in 1900. They were made by his Deagan Manufacturing Company in Chicago, Illinois.