*Location:
Giralda Tower Catedral de Santa María de la Sede Seville, Andalucía, Spain LL: N 37.38626, W 5.99238
*Contact:
(unknown)
*Schedule:
Some bells rung daily.
*Remarks:
Also a clock bell. Largest bell, cast onsite in 1587, weighs 17 English tons. It and five others are hung dead, rung by clocking; rest swing full circle thru tower arches.
*Technical data:
Carillon-sized instrument with action described in Remarks above of 24 bells
Pitch of heaviest bell is C# in the bass octave
Transposition is unknown
Keyboard range: NONE / NONE
Installation was completed in unknown year
with bells made by an unknown maker
Year of latest technical information source is 1979
*Links:
Stock photos of the Giralda Tower: #1, #2, #3, #4, #5, #6,
(This non-traditional "carillon" being from a variety of founders, it is not indexed by foundry nor by year.)
Where the bass bell of this chime ranks among all great bells in Europe.
Ranking among all European non-traditional carillons by pitch (weight).
Ranking among all European non-traditional carillons by size (number of bells).
Index to all tower bell instruments in Spain.
*Status:
This page was built from the database on 16-Feb-07 based on textual data last updated on 2007/02/14 and on technical data last updated on 1990/12/27
Explanations of page format and keyboard range are available.
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