BELO HORIZONTE : BRAZIL

*Location:

   Cathedral
   Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil
   LL: S 19.9, W 43.9
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*Carillonist:

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*Contact:

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*Schedule:

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*Remarks:

   Possibly two carillons in this city.

*Technical data:

   Traditional carillon of 38 bells
   Pitch of heaviest bell is E  in the middle octave
   Transposition is unknown
   Keyboard range:     ----  /    ----  
   The arrangement of tones and semitones is unknown.
   The whole instrument was installed in 1959
     with bells made by vanBergen   
   No auxiliary mechanisms known
   Tower details not available
   Year of latest technical information source is 2012
*Links:

Photo of Boa Viagem Cathedral, one of the possibilities for this place

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

Ranking among all Central and South American traditional carillons by pitch (weight).
Ranking among all Central and South American traditional carillons by size (number of bells).
Ranking among all Central and South American traditional carillons by year of completion.

Index to all traditional carillons in Brazil.
Index to all tower bell instruments in Brazil.

*Status:
   This page was built from the database on  4-Dec-12
   based on textual data last updated on 2008/04/02
   and on technical data last updated on 2012/03/18
*Photos:

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