FRANKFURT-AM-MAIN - STB/2 : GERMANY

*Location:

   Kaiserdom St.Bartholomäus
   Domplatz
   Frankfurt-am-Main, Hessen, Germany
   LL: N 50.11055, E 8.68489
Site locator map
City locator maps and gazetteer page

*Player:

   (not applicable)

*Contact:

   (unknown)

*Schedule:

   (not applicable)

*Remarks:

   Collection of small bells, in a tempo-
   rary display on a scaffolding frame
   outside the cathedral.

*Technical data:

   Chime-sized instrument (without any workable playing mechanism) of 21 bells
   Pitch of heaviest bell is unknown
   Transposition is unknown
   Keyboard range:     ----  /    ----  
   The arrangement of tones and semitones is unknown.
   The whole instrument was installed in unknown year
     with bells made by an unknown maker
   No auxiliary mechanisms known
   Tower details not available
   Year of latest technical information source is 2020
*Links:

A Waymarking page for these bells has 3 photos.  Supposedly there are 25 bells, but actually only 21 can be seen in these photos, in a temporary display on a scaffolding frame outside the cathedral; they cannot be found in Google StreetView.

Where this work lies in the sequence of output of unknown bellfoundries, in this region and in the world.

[This collection of small bells is temporarily indexed as if it were a chime.]
Ranking among all German chimes by pitch (weight).
Ranking among all German chimes by size (number of bells).
Ranking among all German chimes by year of completion.

Index to all tower bell instruments in Germany/Hessen.

*Status:
   This page was built from the database on 15-Jul-20
   based on textual data last updated on 2020/07/14
   and on technical data last updated on 2020/07/14
*Photos:

(none available)

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