*Location:

   Rådhuset
   Salpausselänkatu 2
   Kouvola, Etela-Suomen, Finland
   LL: N 60.87030, E 26.70179

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*Contact:

   City of Kouvola
   *parcel:
     Torikatu 10
   *postal:
     PO Box 85
   45100 Kouvola
   T: 020 61511

*Schedule:

   (unknown)

*Remarks:

   Made by Pfundner, Vienna, Austria

   a1, 90cm, 400kg, 1966 Pfundner

*Technical data:

   Electric-automatic chime of 18 bells
   Pitch of heaviest bell is A  in the middle octave
   Keyboard range:     ----  /    ----  
   Transposition is not applicable
   The arrangement of tones and semitones is unknown.
   The whole instrument was installed in 1966
     by the maker cited in Remarks above
   No auxiliary mechanisms known
   Tower details not available
   Year of latest technical information source is 2006

The city Website is partially in 3 languages.

The Wikimedia Commons category about the building has several photos of it, but none show the bells clearly.  Look for a clock face in the upper right corner of a structure.

The Finnish Wikipedia article about the building has photos but does not mention the bells.

Where this work lies in the sequence of output of the Pfundner bellfoundry, in this region and in the world.

Ranking among all Scandinavian chimes by pitch (weight).
Ranking among all Scandinavian chimes by size (number of bells).
Ranking among all Scandinavian chimes by year of completion.

Index to all tower bell instruments in Finland.

   This page was built from the database on 29-Dec-24
   based on textual data last updated on 2024/12/07
   and on technical data last updated on 2006/04/24