*Location:
Monasterio San Lorenzo de El Escorial (El Escorial Monastery) Aranjuez (Aranjues), Madrid, Spain LL: N 40.03, W 3.60
*Player:
(unknown)
*Contact:
(unknown)
*Schedule:
Once per year.
*Remarks:
Old bells by Melchior de Haze, destroyed by fire, 1820, except for 4 bells. New bells are designed to deHaze profiles, with mean-tone tuning. Tower contained 2 other sets of Dutch bells at different times.
*Technical data:
Traditional carillon of 47 bells
Pitch of heaviest bell is D in the middle octave
Transposition is unknown
Keyboard range: ---- / ----
The instrument was enlarged in 1988
with bells made by Eijsbouts
Prior history:
In 1676, the instrument was begun with 31 bells
by the maker cited in Remarks above
(4 bells remain from that work.)
Year of latest technical information source is 1991
*Links:
Where the initial phase of this work lies in the sequence of output of the de Haze bellfoundry,
in this region
and in the world.
Where the final phase of this work lies in the sequence of output of the Eijsbouts bellfoundry,
in this region
and in the world.
Ranking among all European traditional carillons by pitch (weight).
Ranking among all European traditional carillons by size (number of bells).
Ranking among all European traditional carillons by year of completion.
Index to all traditional carillons in Spain.
Index to all tower bell instruments in Spain.
*Status:
This page was built from the database on 2-May-06 based on textual data last updated on 2006/05/02 and on technical data last updated on 1991/11/17
Explanations of page format and keyboard range are available.
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