LAUNCESTON : AUSTRALIA

*Location:

   Church of the Apostles (RC)
   Margaret Street at Elizabeth Street
   Launceston, Tasmania, Australia
   LL: S 41.44248, E 147.13394

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*Player:

   (unknown)

*Contact:

   Parish House Launceston
   44 Margaret Street
   Launceston  7250
   T: 3/6331 4377   F: 03/6334 1906
   E: apostles@bigpond.com

*Schedule:

   (unknown)

*Remarks:

   Designed for expansion to two
   chromatic octaves.

*Technical data:

   Electric-keyboard chime of 18 bells
   Pitch of heaviest bell is C  in the treble octave
   Transposition is unknown
   Keyboard range:     ----  /    ----  
   The whole instrument was installed in 1988
     with bells made by Taylor      
   Year of latest technical information source is 1989

*Links:

The home page of the Catholic parish of Launceston mentions the bells on the History page, but has no photos.

Where this work lies in the sequence of output of the Taylor 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 1991/11/17

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