BALLARAT - TH/2 : AUSTRALIA

*Location:

   Town Hall
   Sturt Street at Armstrong Street
   Ballarat, Victoria, Australia
   LL: S 37.56211, E 143.85670

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*Player:

   (unknown)

*Contact:

   City of Ballarat
   PO Box 655
   Ballarat  VIC 3353
   T: 3/5320 5832
   E: ballcity@ballarat.vic.gov.au

*Schedule:

   (unknown)

*Remarks:

   Possibly an additional bell by
   Horwood, of later date.
   Refitted in 1980s, and now located
   in a glass tower in town square.

*Technical data:

   Mechanical-automatic chime of 15 bells
   Pitch of heaviest bell is D# in the treble octave
   Transposition is not applicable
   Keyboard range:     ----  /    ----  
   The whole instrument was installed in 1869
     with bells made by Whitechapel 
   Year of latest technical information source is 1979

*Links:

Heritage article about the town hall and bells

Photo of the Town Hall, looking west along Sturt Street toward Armstrong Street
Photo of the Town Hall, looking east along Sturt Street

Where this work lies in the sequence of output of the Whitechapel bellfoundry, in this region and in the world.

Ranking among all Asia and the Pacific Rim chimes by pitch (weight).
Ranking among all Asia and the Pacific Rim chimes by size (number of bells).
Ranking among all Asia and the Pacific Rim chimes by year of completion.

Index to all tower bell instruments in Australia.

*Status:

   This page was built from the database on  6-Sep-07
   based on textual data last updated on 2006/12/20
   and on technical data last updated on 1991/11/21

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