*Location:
Vaskikello (Brassbellstore) Bell Museum
(west garden)
Highway 27 at Highway 4 (E75)
Pyhäsalmi, Oulun Lääni, Finland
LL: N 63.71331, E 25.91915
*Player:
(none)
*Contact:
Lassi and Kaisa Rönkkö Vaskikello Vaskikellontie 420 FIN-86800 Pyhäsalmi T: +358 8 780 780 F: +358 8 780 188
*Schedule:
(unknown)
*Remarks:
Bells by Rudolf Perner, Passau, Germany; made for this place, and hung in two levels around the top of a pole; currently inoperative.
*Technical data:
Electric-automatic chime of 16 bells
Pitch of heaviest bell (excluding sub-bourdon) is C in the itty-bitty octave
Transposition is up two octaves
Keyboard range: (F) C -- / NONE
The whole instrument was installed in 1980
by the maker cited in Remarks above
Year of latest technical information source is 2004
*Links:
Photo with this chime in the foreground.
Where this work lies in the sequence of output of the Perner 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 Finland.
*Status:
This page was built from the database on 5-Dec-06 based on textual data last updated on 2006/04/24 and on technical data last updated on 2006/04/12
Explanations of page format and keyboard range are available.
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