The Federation Bells Field of Bells
*Location:
Birrarung Marr (Park) Batman Avenue, bt Swan & Flinders Sts Melbourne, Victoria, Australia LL: S 37.81863, E 144.97385
*Contact:
City of Melbourne
Town Hall
*parcel:
90-120 Swanston Street
Melbourne, Vic 3000
*postal:
PO Box 1603
Melbourne, Vic 3001
T: 3 9658 9658 F: 3 9654 4854
E: enquiries@melbourne.vic.gov.au
- or -
Australian Bell Pty Ltd
1743 Heathcote-Redesdale Road
Mia Mia, Victoria 3444
E: neil@ausbell.com*Schedule:
8am and 5pm daily, automatic sequence from one of 7 Australian composers.
*Remarks:
Bells by Australian Bell: 7 polytonal, the rest harmonic; each inverted atop a pole (various heights), arrayed in a field.
*Technical data:
Electric-automatic carillon of 39 bells
Pitch of heaviest bell is D in the middle octave
Transposition is not applicable
Keyboard range: NONE / NONE
The arrangement of tones and/or semitones
is non-standard; see Remarks above.
The whole instrument was installed in 2002
by the maker cited in Remarks above
Year of latest technical information source is 2002
*Links:
An article on McLachlan & Hasell's harmonic bells has a photo of (some of) the Federation bells at Birrarung Marr.
The White Hat Guide to Birrarung Marr, with a photo of some of the bells.
A city page about the park
A large photo of the park, with the Federation Bells barely visible at the center of the picture, just to the right of the long straight walk.
The project overview
for this Australian Sound Design Project has a clickable photo of the Field of Bells;
one is actually almost conventional in shape.
A components page
for the project offers the same photo plus an MP3 audio file.
Where this work lies in the sequence of output of miscellaneous bellfoundries, in this region and in the world.
Ranking among all Asian & Pacific Rim non-traditional carillons by pitch (weight).
Ranking among all Asian & Pacific Rim non-traditional carillons by size (number of bells).
Ranking among all Asia & Pacific Rim non-traditional carillons by year of completion.
Index to all tower bell instruments in Australia.
*Status:
This page was built from the database on 21-Nov-06 based on textual data last updated on 2006/11/20 and on technical data last updated on 2005/11/11
Explanations of page format and keyboard range are available.
[TowerBells Home Page] [Site data top page] [Credits and Disclaimers] [Feedback]
Please send comments or questions to csz_stl@swbell.net
