JONKOPING : SWEDEN

*Location:

   St.Sofia Tower
   Jönköping, Jönköpings Län, Sweden
   LL: N 57.78, E 14.16

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*Player:

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*Contact:

   Jönköpings Sofia församling
   ÷stra Storgatan 45
   553 21 Jönköping
   T: 036-30 35 00   F: 036-30 35 38
   E: jonkopings.sofia.pastorat /@/
      svenskakyrkan.se

*Schedule:

   (unknown)

*Technical data:

   Electric-keyboard chime of 11 bells
   Pitch of heaviest bell is unknown
   Transposition is unknown
   Keyboard range:     ----  /    ----  
   The whole instrument was installed in 1958
     with bells made by Eijsbouts   
   Year of latest technical information source is 1991

*Links:

The Swedish Church page has a small photo of the tower, but nowhere are the bells mentioned.

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

Ranking among all European chimes by size (number of bells).
Ranking among all European chimes by pitch of largest bell.
Ranking among all European chimes by year of completion.

Index to all tower bell instruments in Sweden.

*Status:

   This page was built from the database on 12-Jun-07
   based on textual data last updated on 2007/06/11
   and on technical data last updated on 1992/07/05

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