Hillandale : S AFRICA

*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:

See the Webpage of The South African Guild of Church Bell Ringers for up-to-date information.

A city locator map

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.


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