KECSKEMÉT : HUNGARY

*Location:

   Városháza (City Hall)
   Kecskemét, Bács-Kiskun, Hungary
   LL: N 46.9077, E 19.6923

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*Contact:

   Tourinform Kecskemét Office
   Kossuth Square 1
   6000 Kecskemét
   T: 76/481-065
   E: kecskemet@tourinform.hu,
      cityhall@kecskemet.hu

*Schedule:

   Hourly, playing the works of Kodaly,
   Erkel and Beethoven

*Remarks:

   Reportedly by the German foundry of
   "Korfhaga and Sons, and a gift to the
   city from Germany", though the bells
   carry no maker's name.

*Technical data:

   Electric-automatic carillon of 37 bells
   Pitch of heaviest bell is unknown
   Transposition is unknown
   Keyboard range:     ----  /    ----  
   The whole instrument was installed in 1983
     by the maker cited in Remarks above
   Year of latest technical information source is 1992

*Links:

Where this work lies in the sequence of output of miscellaneous bellfoundries, in this region and in the world.

Ranking among all European non-traditional carillons by pitch (weight).
Ranking among all European non-traditional carillons by size (number of bells).
Ranking among all European non-traditional carillons by year of completion.

Index to all tower bell instruments in Hungary.

*Status:

   This page was built from the database on 24-Oct-07
   based on textual data last updated on 2007/10/22
   and on technical data last updated on 1995/04/22

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