Mobile carillon

*Location:

   Glockengießerei Perner
   Stephanstraße at Glockenstraße
   Passau, Bayern, Germany
   LL: N 48.57678, E 13.43879

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*Carillonist:

   Bastian Fuchs

*Contact:

   Rudolph Perner GmbH & Co.
     Glockengießerei
   Stephanstraße 18/20
   D-94034 Passau
   T: 0851/95529-0   F: 0851/54912
   E: info@perner.de

*Schedule:

   Special occasions.
   (Currently in storage)

*Remarks:

   Design and construction by Perner;
   can be removed from its carrying truck
   or trailer; 2 x 5 x 1.8 m.
   Treble bell replaced.

*Technical data:

   Traditional carillon of 49 bells
   Pitch of heaviest bell is A# in the middle octave
   Transposition is up one octave
   Keyboard range:     G C 42/    A#G   
   There are two missing bass semitones
   The presence or absence of a practice console is unknown
   1 bell was recast or replaced in 2011
     by Perner       
   Prior history:
     In 2009, the complete instrument of 49 bells was installed
       by Perner      
       (48 bells remain from that work.)
   No auxiliary mechanisms known
   Tower details not available
   Year of latest technical information source is 2013

The home page of the foundry Website has a photo of the mobile carillon set up in the Passau town square; this links to a page offering five videos from a concert on that instrument.  (The videos appear to be horizontally compressed.)  The Documentation video opens with a brief glimpse of the Perner automatic carillon in the Old Town Hall of Passau, and continues with narration about the carillon alternating with an interview with Rudolph Perner (in German).  But there is no textual description. 

The WCF page for this carillon has a photo and partial description.

The DGV page about this carillon has no photos; details are incomplete.

A Wikipedia photo shows this carillon on a truck.

Where the initial phase of this work lies in the sequence of output of the Perner bellfoundry, in this region and in the world.
Where the final phase of this work lies in the sequence of output of the Perner bellfoundry, in this region and in the world.

Ranking among all German traditional carillons by pitch (weight).
Ranking among all German traditional carillons by size (number of bells).
Ranking among all German traditional carillons by year of completion.

Index to all traveling carillons in the world.

Index to all traditional carillons in Germany.

Index to all tower bell instruments in Germany/Bavaria.

   This page was built from the database on  9-Feb-24
   based on textual data last updated on 2024/01/06
   and on technical data last updated on 2020/06/04