TAMINS : SWITZERLAND

*Location:

   Wieland Blumen und Gartenbau AG
   Dahlienstrasse
   Tamins, Graubünden, Switzerland
   LL: N 46.82833, E 9.41033

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*Contact:

   Wieland Blumen und Gartenbau AG
   Dahlienstrasse
   CH-7015 Tamins
   T: 081/641 11 12   F: 081/641 20 05
   E: wieland /@/ swissonline DOTch

*Schedule:

   (unknown)

*Remarks:

   Associated with a floral clock.

*Technical data:

   Electric-automatic chime of 14 bells
   Pitch of heaviest bell is C  in the itty-bitty octave
   Transposition is up two octaves
   Keyboard range:     C C#  /    NONE  
   There are no missing bass semitones
   The whole instrument was installed in 1975
     with bells made by Rüetschi    
   Year of latest technical information source is 2007

*Links:

The company Website (in German) does not mention these bells, and some pages may hang some Web browsers.

GCCS photo of bells above a floral clock

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

Ranking among all European chimes by pitch (weight).
Ranking among all European chimes by size (number of bells).
Ranking among all European chimes by year of completion.

Index to all tower bell instruments in Switzerland.

*Status:

   This page was built from the database on  5-Nov-07
   based on textual data last updated on 2007/11/01
   and on technical data last updated on 2007/11/01

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