HIROSHIMA - W : JAPAN

*Location:

   Chapel
   Hiroshima Women's University
   Hiroshima, Honshu, Japan
   LL: N 34.3666, E 132.4689

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*Contact:

   Hiroshima Prefectural
      Women's University
   1-1-71 Ujina-Higashi
   Minami-ku, Hiroshima
   734-8558 Japan
   T: (082)251-5178  F: (082)251-9405
   E: gakusei1@hirojo-u.ac.jp

*Schedule:

   Six times daily

*Remarks:

   Dynamic-action electric strikers

*Technical data:

   Electric-automatic chime of 15 bells
   Pitch of heaviest bell is unknown
   Transposition is unknown
   Keyboard range:     ----  /    ----  
   The whole instrument was installed in 2???
     with bells made by Paccard     
   Year of latest technical information source is 2008

*Links:

Photos and description

The university Website (English section)

Where this work lies in the sequence of output of the Paccard bellfoundry, in this region and in the world.

Ranking among all Asia and the Pacific Rim chimes by pitch (weight).
Ranking among all Asia and the Pacific Rim chimes by size (number of bells).
Ranking among all Asia and the Pacific Rim chimes by year of completion.

Index to all tower bell instruments in Japan.

*Status:

   This page was built from the database on 17-Apr-09
   based on textual data last updated on 2009/04/14
   and on technical data last updated on 2008/12/30

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