BUEMPLIZ : SWITZERLAND

*Location:

   Tscharnergut Bethlehem
   Waldmanstrasse 17
   Bümpliz, Bern, Switzerland
   LL: N 46.94787, E 7.38951

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*Contact:

   Tscharnergut Bethlehem
   Waldmanstrasse 17a
   CH-3027 Berne
   T: 031/991 70 55   F: 031/991 77 17
   E: info@qzt.ch

*Schedule:

   (unknown)

*Technical data:

   Electric-automatic chime of 18 bells
   Pitch of heaviest bell is C  in the treble octave
   Transposition is up one octave
   Keyboard range:     C G   /    NONE  
   There are no missing bass semitones
   The whole instrument was installed in 1965
     with bells made by Eijsbouts   
   Year of latest technical information source is 2007

*Links:

GCCS photo of tower

Swiss map of Bumpliz

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

Ranking among all European chimes by pitch (weight).
Ranking among all European chimes by size (number of bells).
Ranking among all European chimes by year of completion.

Index to all tower bell instruments in Switzerland.

*Status:

   This page was built from the database on 27-Oct-07
   based on textual data last updated on 2007/10/25
   and on technical data last updated on 2007/10/22

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