*Location:
Vaskikello (Brassbellstore) Bell Museum Highway 27 at Highway 4 (E75) Pyhäsalmi, Oulun Lääni, Finland LL: N 63.71331, E 25.91915
*Contact:
Lassi and Kaisa Rönkkö Vaskikello Vaskikellontie 420 FIN-86800 Pyhäsalmi T: +358 8 780 780 F: +358 8 780 188
*Remarks:
A collection of more than 1500 bells of all kinds, including the various other instruments listed here; may include three more chimes. It began in 1973 with a single bell to fit the newly-adopted name of the roadhouse/restaurant, and "just grew." Also here is a foundry where small bronze bells are cast.
*Technical data:
Chime-sized instrument with action described in Remarks above of 8 bells
Pitch of heaviest bell is unknown
Transposition is unknown
Keyboard range: NONE / NONE
Work was done (as described in Remarks above) in ****
by the maker cited in Remarks above
Year of latest technical information source is 2004
*Links:
Photos and description (text in Esperanto)
A visitor's photos of many of the bells (text in Finnish)
Another visitor's photos (text in German)
A visitor's photos (very large page) -
#1= large bell shed; #2= Perner automatic chime in foreground, telephone shelter in left background,
oriental bell in right background; #3= bell shed near entrance, with two sets of steel bells;
#4= Szabados automatic chime; #5= large steel bells in shed; #6= previous highway sign bell
(now demoted) for advertising on the restaurant (compare to the present gold-leaf-covered bell
on the splash page of the Vaskikello Website).
There's a story about the telephone shelter (the two bright orange bells
at an angle). Some time after they had been put up, a German tourist discovered that
the bells had come from his own parish church. Disturbed about their present use,
he took a photo of them back to his parish priest. The priest examined the photo and
then said, "Obviously these people have a direct telephone to Heaven; so it's OK!"
From a visitor's gallery:
the largest
bell shed, with the great bell on the second level, chime actions at the right end;
another photo
of the same area;
small bells
displayed between glass panes in the restaurant windows;
the shed over
the entrance driveway, with sets of 5, 3 and 2 cast steel bells, painted for protection
against rust;
a large bronze bell;
a large oriental bell.
Index to all tower bell instruments in Finland.
*Status:
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