*Location:

   Vaskikello (Brassbellstore) Bell Museum
     (west garden)
   Highway E75 (Jyvåskylåntie)
     at Highway 27 (Vaskellontie)
   Pyhäsalmi, Oulun Lääni, Finland
   LL: N 63.71404, E 25.91863

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*Player:

   (none)

*Contact:

   Lassi and Kaisa Rönkkö
   Vaskikello
   Vaskikellontie 420
   FIN-86800 Pyhäsalmi
   T: +358 8 780 780   F: +358 8 780 188
   E: info/@/vaskikello DOTfi

*Schedule:

   (unknown)

*Remarks:

   Bells by Rudolf Perner, Passau, Germany;
   made for this place, and hung in
   two levels around the top of a pole;
   currently inoperative.

*Technical data:

   Electric-automatic chime of 16 bells
   Pitch of heaviest bell (excluding sub-bourdon) is C  in the itty-bitty octave
   Transposition is not applicable
   Keyboard range: (F) C --  /    NONE  
   The arrangement of tones and semitones is unknown.
   The whole instrument was installed in 1980
     with bells made by Perner      
   No auxiliary mechanisms known
   Tower details not available
   Year of latest technical information source is 2004

The Website of this combination restaurant, gas station and museum (text in Finnish only; formerly there was English, Esperanto and German also) has photos of the building and of the small bells produced by the on-site foundry.

Photo with this chime in the foreground.

Where this work lies in the sequence of output of the Perner bellfoundry, 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 Finland.

   This page was built from the database on 26-Mar-20
   based on textual data last updated on 2020/03/21
   and on technical data last updated on 2013/08/09