*Location:
Cupola, Archbishop's Palace (Neubau; Neue Rezidenz) Mozartplatz 1 Salzburg, Austria LL: N 47.79846, E 13.04734
*Contact:
Glockenspiel Mozartplatz 2 Salzburg A-5020 T: 662-841-403
*Schedule:
Daily at 7am, 11am, 6pm; tunes changed seasonally. Admission fee for the building.
*Remarks:
Bells by Melchior de Haze; also reported as 1695 or 1696, installed 1704 or 1705; clock and drum date from 1873.
*Technical data:
Mechanical-automatic carillon of 35 bells Pitch of heaviest bell is A# in the middle octave Transposition is unknown Keyboard range: ---- / ---- There are two missing bass semitones The whole instrument was installed in 1689 by the maker cited in Remarks above Year of latest technical information source is 1966
*Links:
A travel guide's description of the automatic carillon, with a tiny photo of the tower.
A waymarker's Website has an article with photo, linked to two larger photos of the tower.
A personal tour page includes a photo of the tower from a different perspective.
A tourist's photo of the huge clockworks
Stock photo, view over rooftops to the belfry, where the bells are clearly visible
Where this work lies in the sequence of output of the de Haze bellfoundry, in this region and in the world.
Index to all glockenspiels in the world.
Ranking among all European non-traditional carillons by pitch (weight).
Ranking among all European non-traditional carillons by size (number of bells).
Ranking among all European non-traditional carillons by year of completion.
Index to all non-traditional carillons in Austria.
Index to all tower bell instruments in Austria.
*Status:
This page was built from the database on 14-Nov-06 based on textual data last updated on 2006/11/04 and on technical data last updated on 1979/08/07
Explanations of page format and keyboard range are available.
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