PRAHA - L : CZECH REP.

*Location:

   Loreto Cloister Museum Tower
   Loretánské námesti
   Hradcany
   Praha (Prague), Czech Republic
   (formerly part of Czechoslovakia)
   LL: N 50.08925, E 14.39157

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*Player:

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*Contact:

   Loreto Prague
   Loretánské nám.7
   118 00 Praha 1 - Hradcany
   T/F: 220-516-740
   E: loreta@kapucini.cz

*Schedule:

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*Remarks:

   Bells by Claude Fremy, cast 1683-91;
   oldest extant Dutch carillon outside
   the Netherlands.  Installation was
   completed by local clockmaker in 1695;
   unknown whether that included keyboard.
   One bell was replaced in the 18th c.
   Three small bells are not connected to
   the drum, and perhaps not to keyboard.

*Technical data:

   Traditional carillon of 30 bells
   Pitch of heaviest bell is C  in the treble octave
   Transposition is up one octave
   Keyboard range:     C F   /    C C   
   The arrangement of tones and/or semitones
     is non-standard; see Remarks above.
   The whole instrument was installed in 1690
     by the maker cited in Remarks above
   Year of latest technical information source is 2010

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Where this work lies in the sequence of output of miscellaneous bellfoundries, in this region and in the world.

Ranking among all European non-traditional carillons by pitch (weight).
Ranking among all European non-traditional carillons by size (number of bells).
Ranking among all European non-traditional carillons by year of completion.

Index to all tower bell instruments in Czech Republic.

*Status:

   This page was built from the database on 10-May-10
   based on textual data last updated on 2010/04/30
   and on technical data last updated on 2010/04/29

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