*Location:

   Clock tower
   Palacio Insular de Tenerife
   Pl. del Cabildo
   Zona Centro
   Santa Cruz de Tenerife
   Tenerife, Canary Islands
   LL: N 28.46609, W 16.24699

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*Player:

   (unknown)

*Contact:

   Cabildo Insular de Tenerife
   Plaza de España 1
   38003 Santa Cruze de Tenerife
   T: 901 501 901 / 922 239 500

*Schedule:

   Quarters and hour strike with the
   Tajaraste melody

*Remarks:

   Clock installed in 1951;
   bells presumed contemporaneous

*Technical data:

   Chime-sized instrument or collection of  7 bells
   Pitch of heaviest bell is C# in the middle octave
   Keyboard range:     ----  /    ----  
   Transposition is unknown
   The arrangement of tones and semitones is unknown.
   Installation was completed in 1951
     with bells made by an unknown maker 
   Auxiliary mechanisms: HQ    
   Tower details not available
   Year of latest technical information source is unknown

The Spanish Wikipedia article about the building has photos of it.

A YouTube video (1:43) includes playing of a tune (at 00:41) followed by the noon hour strike (at (00:58).

This instrument having no principal maker, it is not indexed as such.

This instrument having fewer than 8 bells, it is not indexed by pitch, size or year.

Index to all tower bell instruments in Spain/CI.

   This page was built from the database on  3-Mar-25
   based on textual data last updated on 2025/02/02
   and on technical data last updated on 2025/02/02