*Location:

   A.Schweitzer Memorial Tower
   (near Buetschwil, east of Zurich)
   Libingen, Switzerland

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*Player:

   Walter Meierhans   (d.2005/6)

*Remarks:

   This instrument was moved to
   Chateaurenard, France, in 1981/2;
   in 1990, the bells were put into a
   traveling carillon for Papageno; 
   later sold.  See: SOEST, NETHERLANDS

*Technical data:

   Carillon-sized instrument or collection, no longer in existence (defunct), of 60 bells
   Pitch of heaviest bell is C  in the middle octave
   Keyboard range:     ----  /    ----  
   Transposition is unknown
   The arrangement of tones and semitones is unknown.
   The whole instrument was installed in 1967
     with bells made by Petit & Fritsen     (except for 1)
   Auxiliary mechanisms: nB    
   Tower details not available
   Year of latest technical information source is 1973

This site and its history are also described here.

Where this work lies in the sequence of output of the Petit & Fritsen bellfoundry.

   This page was built from the database on 24-Feb-25
   based on textual data last updated on 2006/05/01
   and on technical data last updated on 1975/07/20