VALLETTA : MALTA

*Location:

   St.John's Co-Cathedral
   Republic Square
   (Merchants Street at Old Theatre Street)
   Valletta, Malta
   LL: N 35.89, E 14.52

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*Player:

   (unknown)

*Contact:

   St.John's Co-Cathedral
   St.John Street
   Valletta, Malta
   T: 21 22 56 39
   E: info@maltachurch.org.mt

*Schedule:

   (unknown)

*Remarks:

   Six bells (G,A,B,C,D,E) hung as a chime
   in southeast tower, largest perhaps
   6 1/2 tons; also two smaller bells (C,A)
   in northwest tower; all by various
   local makers from 1660 to 1759.
   Also 3 bells on clock tower roof -
   hour bell C#, quarter bells G#,F#.

*Technical data:

   Chime-sized instrument with action described in Remarks above of 11 bells
   Pitch of heaviest bell is unknown
   Transposition is unknown
   Keyboard range:     NONE  /    NONE  
   The arrangement of tones and/or semitones
     is non-standard; see Remarks above.
   Work was done (as described in Remarks above) in 1759
     by the maker cited in Remarks above
   Year of latest technical information source is 1993

*Links:

In a view of St.John's from the front, one of the bells can be seen in each tower, along with the three clock bells.

An article on the Co-Cathedral has a photo of the clock tower.

(These bells being from a variety of founders, this is not indexed as a chime by foundry nor by year.)

Where the bass bell of this chime ranks among all great bells in Europe.

Ranking among all European chimes by pitch (weight).
Ranking among all European chimes by size (number of bells).

Index to all tower bell instruments in Malta.

*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 2006/11/21

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