*Location:
Vaskikello (Brassbellstore) Bell Museum
(southwest 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:
Automatically every 15 minutes during open hours of the restaurant.
*Remarks:
Bells by Szabados, Budapest; made for this place, and mounted in an openwork hexagonal clock cage; speakers provide musical accompaniment for the bells, which have variable-volume electric action.
*Technical data:
Electric-automatic chime of 18 bells
Pitch of heaviest bell is unknown
Transposition is unknown
Keyboard range: ---- / NONE
The whole instrument was installed in 1997
by the maker cited in Remarks above
Year of latest technical information source is 2004
*Links:
Photo of this chime; in the distance at left can be seen the signpost and bell which are featured on the Vaskikello Website.
Where this work lies in the sequence of output of the Szabados 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 20-Apr-06 based on textual data last updated on 2006/04/12 and on technical data last updated on 2006/04/12
Explanations of page format and keyboard range are available.
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