*Location:
Temple Expiatori de la Sagrada Família
Carrer de Mallorca,
bt Gaudi Square & Holy Family Square
Barcelona, Spain
LL: N 41.4036, E 2.1746
*Contact:
Church of La Sagrada Família C.Mallorca, 401 08013 Barcelona T: 932 080 414 E: informacio@sagradafamilia.org - or - Friends of La Sagrada Familia E: amics@sagradafamilia.org
*Schedule:
(unknown)
*Remarks:
Tubular bells invented by Gaudí, but not yet installed (though most of the planned 12 bell towers are complete); design tests completed in 1915.
*Technical data:
Carillon-sized instrument or collection of 60 tubular bells
Pitch of heaviest bell is unknown
Transposition is unknown
Keyboard range: ---- / ----
The whole instrument was installed in 202?
by the maker cited in Remarks above
Year of latest technical information source is 1915
*Links:
The Wikipedia article on the building has photos and many links.
A blog article has photos and descriptions of touring the towers.
Another long well-illustrated blog about the building
Yet another blog article reports that "The spire towers are destined to hold tubular bells capable of playing complex music at great volume."
Where this work lies in the sequence of output of its maker.
Ranking among all tower tube instruments by size (number of notes).
Index to all tower tube instruments in the world.
Index to all tower bell instruments in Spain.
*Status:
This page was built from the database on 7-Jul-09 based on textual data last updated on 2008/11/12 and on technical data last updated on 2008/11/12
Explanations of page format and keyboard range are available.
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