*Location:

   Torre de las Campanas (South tower)
   Catedral
   Praza de Obradoiro
   Santiago de Compostela, Galicia, Spain
   LL: N 42.88043, W 8.54509

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*Player:

   (unknown)

*Contact:

   (unknown)

*Schedule:

   (unknown)

*Remarks:

   Variously reported as 13 or 14 bells.
   Also 2 bells in the clock tower
   and others in the museum and cloister.

*Technical data:

   Chime-sized instrument or collection of 14 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

The Spanish Wikipedia article about the building has photos of it, and a section about each of the three principal towers.

In the clock tower of the cathedral, the present hour bell ranks among all great bells in Europe.
In the courtyard of the cathedral, the former hour bell, now cracked and disused, ranks among all great bells in Europe.

Where this work lies in the sequence of output of unknown bellfoundries, 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 Spain.

   This page was built from the database on 23-Nov-20
   based on textual data last updated on 2020/11/22
   and on technical data last updated on 2020/11/11