Defunct tower bell instruments of Asia and the Pacific Rim
Some carillons and chimes in Asia and the Pacific Rim region
have been destroyed or lost.
There are no data pages for such sites, so they cannot be indexed in
the same manner as extant instruments.
Hence this page.
The lists below present, in appropriate orders,
the original locations of such instruments, without distinction
between traditional and non-traditional mechanisms.
The second section presents similar information about chime-sized installations.
DEFUNCT:
Carillons which no longer exist are listed in order by city name:
- World's Fair (1970), Osaka, Japan
- In 1969, Eijsbouts made a
lightweight 28-bell automatic carillon which was displayed at this Fair.
Afterwards it was sold, but the destination is unknown.
CHIMES:
Chime-sized instruments which no longer exist are listed in order by city name:
- Nagasaki Holland Village, Seihi-cho, Nagasaki prefecture,
Honshu Island, Japan
- In 1985, two years after this tourist entertainment center opened,
Eijsbouts
provided 18 small bells as part of an astronomical clockwork (indoors).
The original report implied the use of tower bells, basis C3;
but later reports have suggested that handbells were supplied instead.
The clockwork has since been disassembled and the center closed (in 2001);
the disposition of the bells is unknown.
NOTE: Other Eijsbouts bells reported as being installed at
Nagasaki Holland Village (in 1991 or later) are actually at
Huis ten Bosch,
a much larger entertainment facility at Sasebo-cho, Nagasaki prefecture.
- Church, Port Arthur, Tasmania, Australia
- Some time in the 1800s, while this was still a convict community,
a ring of 8 bells was locally cast for the church.
By the 1990s, the bells were long gone (though some may survive elsewhere),
and the church was derelict.
NOTE: Sites for which no database identification is listed are
the only ones in their respective cities in the database.
Thus their identification follows the standard model.
Return to Indexes to tower bell sites
in Asia and the Pacific Rim.
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This page was created 2006/11/15 and last revised 2007/11/29.
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