LE LOCLE : SWITZERLAND

*Location:

   Musée d'horlogerie
   Château des Monts
   Route des Monts
   Le Locle, Neuchâtel, Switzerland
   LL: N 47.06360, E 6.74991

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*Player:

   (unknown)

*Contact:

   Musée d'horlogerie
   Chateau des Monts
   Route des Monts 65
   CH-2400 Le Locle
   T: 032/931 16 80   F: 032/931 16 70
   E: mhl@ne.ch

*Schedule:

   (unknown)

*Technical data:

   Chime-sized instrument or collection of 18 bells
   Pitch of heaviest bell is D# in the treble octave
   Transposition is up one octave
   Keyboard range:     D#A#  /    NONE  
   There are two missing bass semitones
   The whole instrument was installed in 1977
     with bells made by Sergeys     
   Year of latest technical information source is 2007

*Links:

The museum Website (in French or German) does not seem to have any information about these bells.

Where this work lies in the sequence of output of the Sergeys 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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