TEGUCIGALPA : HONDURAS

*Location:

   South tower
   Basílica de Suyapa
   Boulevard Suyapa [east end]
   Tegucigalpa, Honduras
   LL: N 14.08045, W 87.15766

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*Player:

   Jose Pedro Duron Valladares

*Contact:

   (unknown)

*Schedule:

   (unknown)

*Technical data:

   Traditional carillon of 42 bells
   Pitch of heaviest bell is E  in the middle octave
   Transposition is unknown
   Keyboard range:     ----  /    ----  
   The whole instrument was installed in 1960
     with bells made by Petit & Fritsen
   Year of latest technical information source is 1978

*Links:

The Website of the Sanctuary of Our Lady of Suyapa (all in Spanish) has a dim photo of the facade and towers as the background to the home page, but otherwise says nothing about the building.

A tourist album has a photo (scroll down to the middle of the page) which clearly shows that the bells are in the right-hand (south) tower.

Photo of facade and towers
Another photo
Another photo

Evening photo of the building, with facade and towers illuminated

Night photo, ditto

Where this work lies in the sequence of output of the Petit & Fritsen bellfoundry, in this region and in the world.

Ranking among all Central and South American traditional carillons by pitch (weight).
Ranking among all Central and South American traditional carillons by size (number of bells).

Index to all traditional carillons in HN.

Index to all tower bell instruments in HN.

*Status:

   This page was built from the database on  6-Apr-08
   based on textual data last updated on 2008/04/02
   and on technical data last updated on 1979/01/16

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