PRAHA - V : CZECH REP.

*Location:

   Church of St.Peter & Paul at Vysehrad
   (Svaty Petr a Pavel)
   Praha (Prague), Czech Republic
   LL: N 50.06443, E 14.41760
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*Contact:

   Vysehrad
   V Pevnosti 159/5b
   Praha 2, 128 00
   T: 241 410 348
   E: info@praha-vysehrad.cz
   - or -
   Stulcove
   Praha 2 - Vysehrad
   T: 224 911 353   F: 224 920 603
   E: info@kkvys.cz

*Schedule:

   (unknown)

*Remarks:

   Also reported as 17 bells, with 4
   separate large bells.

*Technical data:

   Electric-automatic chime of 18 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 2001
     with bells made by Perner      
   No auxiliary mechanisms known
   Tower details not available
   Year of latest technical information source is 2013
*Links:

The church Website (in Czech)

The Website of the fortress opens with a sketch map showing the locations of the various buildings. . The English version doesn't mention the bells.

A tourism page has a photo of the building and mentions the bells.

Where this work lies in the sequence of output of the Perner 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 Czech Republic.

*Status:
   This page was built from the database on 19-Aug-13
   based on textual data last updated on 2013/08/09
   and on technical data last updated on 2013/08/09
*Photos:

(none available)


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