VILLARREAL - 2 : SPAIN

*Location:

   West tower 
   Basilica de San Pasqual
   Villarreal (Vila-real,
     Villarreal de los Infantes),
       Valenciana, Spain
   LL: N 39.93, W 0.10

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*Player:

   None.

*Contact:

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*Schedule:

   Not used.

*Remarks:

   Mechanism and installation by
   Clock-O-Matic of Belgium; additional 
   electric action on lowest 3 octaves.

*Technical data:

   Traditional carillon of 72 bells
   Pitch of heaviest bell is C  in the middle octave
   Transposition is nil (concert pitch)
   Keyboard range:     --C   /    C --  
   There is one missing bass semitone
   The whole instrument was installed in 1997
     with bells made by Eijsbouts   
   Year of latest technical information source is 2006

*Links:

A page about the carillon, with photos (in Spanish or Valencian?).
An overall inventory page from the same Website, with more photos (in Spanish and Valencian). An individual inventory page has a photo and description of each bell in both instruments.

Where 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, including the 12-bell peal in the east tower.

*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 2006/05/02

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