*Location:
Monastery of the Order of the Holy Cross
Hillandale,
Grahamstown, South Africa*Contact:
see GRAHAMSTOWN
*Technical data:
Ring of 6 bells
Pitch of heaviest bell is C# in the treble octave
Transposition is not applicable
Keyboard range: ROPE / NONE
There are no added semitones
The instrument was enlarged in 2003
with bells made by Taylor
Prior history:
In 19??, the instrument was begun with 3 bells
by Eayre & Lewis
Year of latest technical information source is 2003
*Links:
Where the initial phase of this work lies in the sequence of output of miscellaneous bellfoundries,
in this region
and in the world.
Where the final phase of this work lies in the sequence of output of the Taylor bellfoundry,
in this region
and in the world.
Ranking among all rings in this region by pitch (weight).
Ranking among all rings in this region by size (number of bells).
Ranking among all rings in this region by year of completion.
Index to all tower bell instruments in South Africa (ZA).
*Status:
This page was built on 11-Jul-05 (not from the database) and last revised on 10-Jan-08.The city name is shown in mixed case at the top of this page and in all referring indexes because this site, having only 6 bells, does not have an entry in the database which supports all other site data pages.
Explanations of page format and keyboard range are available.
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