*Location:

   Brno City Museum
   Hrad Špilberk
   Brno, Czech Republic
   LL: N 49.19453, E 16.59883

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*Contact:

   Brno City Museum
   Spilberk 210/1
   662 24 Brno
   T: 542 123 611   F: 542 123 613
   E: muzeum.brno/@/spilberk DOTcz

*Schedule:

   Hourly 0900-1900

*Remarks:

   Cast by Laetitie Dytrychová, Brodek
   u Prerova

*Technical data:

   Electric-automatic chime of 15 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 1990
     by the maker cited in Remarks above
   No auxiliary mechanisms known
   Tower details: 
     Height of console:                  . meters above ground
     Height of lowest level of bells:    5 meters above ground
     Height of highest level of bells:   8 meters above ground
     Belfry openness:  99%
   Year of latest technical information source is 2020

The Wikimedia Commons category for this chime has six photos of it, but none are used on regular Wikipedia pages.

The museum Website (in Czech) has a page about these bells, with photos and the schedule of tunes that are played.

A Waymarking page for these bells has many photos of the bells and building.

YouTube video (1:47) of the bells in operation

Where this work lies in the sequence of output of miscellaneous bellfoundries, 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 Czech Republic.

   This page was built from the database on  7-Nov-22
   based on textual data last updated on 2022/10/27
   and on technical data last updated on 2022/10/27