OOTACAMUND : INDIA

*Location:

   St.Stephen's Church 
   Ootacamund (Ooty), Tamilnadu, India
   LL: N 11.41462, E 76.70205

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*Contact:

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*Schedule:

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*Remarks:

   Tower tubes, presumably from England

*Technical data:

   Chime-sized instrument or collection of  9 tubular bells
   Pitch of heaviest bell is unknown
   Transposition is unknown
   Keyboard range:     ----  /    ----  
   The whole instrument was installed in 1894
     by the maker cited in Remarks above
   Year of latest technical information source is 2004

*Links:

A very long travel article about the TamilNadu region of India mentions St.Stephen's Church, in UDHAGAMANDALAM (OOTY), which the British developed as a summer retreat.  But there is no photo of the building.

Photos of the building:  #1,  #2,  #3,  #4 (very large)

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 India.
Index to all tower bell instruments in India.

*Status:

   This page was built from the database on  7-Jul-09
   based on textual data last updated on 2004/05/15
   and on technical data last updated on 2004/05/15

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