*Location:

   Stiftung Wagerenhof
   Asylstrasse at Wagerenstrasse
   Uster, Zurich, Switzerland
   LL: N 47.35127, E 8.72688

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*Contact:

   Stiftung Wagerenhof
   Asylstrasse 24
   CH-8610 Uster
   T: 044/905 13 11   F: 044/905 13 13
   E: info /@/ wagerenhof DOTch

*Schedule:

   (unknown)

*Technical data:

   Electric-automatic chime of 12 bells
   Pitch of heaviest bell is unknown
   Transposition is not applicable
   Keyboard range:     ----  /    ----  
   The arrangement of tones and semitones is unknown.
   The whole instrument was installed in 1972
     with bells made by Petit & Fritsen
   No auxiliary mechanisms known
   Tower details: 
     Height of console:                 (unknown)
     Height of lowest level of bells:   (unknown)
     Height of highest level of bells:  (unknown)
     Belfry openness:  99%
   Year of latest technical information source is 2008

The organization's Website (in German) has a page which includes the bells in a photo.

GCCS photo of bells on triangular open frame

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

   This page was built from the database on  4-Dec-12
   based on textual data last updated on 2007/10/22
   and on technical data last updated on 2008/04/09

(none available)