FIRENZE (FLORENCE) : ITALY - FI

*Location:

   Florence Cathedral / Duomo di Firenze
   (Cattedrale di Santa Maria del Fiore)
   Piazze del Duomo at Via del Calzaiuoli
   Florence, Tuscany, Italy
   LL: N 43.77297, E 11.25570
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*Player:

   (unknown)

*Contact:

   (unknown)

*Schedule:

   (unknown)

*Remarks:

   Collection of bells of various ages,
   of which 5 are disused.  Newest bells,
   cast by Fonderia Barigozzi in 1956-57,
   are the 5 trebles of the peal,
   replacing the 5 disused bells.

*Technical data:

   Chime-sized instrument with action described in Remarks above of 12 bells
   Pitch of heaviest bell (excluding sub-bourdon) is C  in the middle octave
   Transposition is unknown
   Keyboard range:     NONE  /    NONE  
   The arrangement of tones and/or semitones
     is non-standard; see Remarks above.
   Work was done (as described in Remarks above) in 1957
     with bells made by multiple makers
   Auxiliary mechanisms: S7    
   Tower details not available
   Year of latest technical information source is 2021
*Links:

This work having no principal maker, it is not indexed by foundry.

The usable bells numbering less than 8, this collection is not indexed by size, pitch, or year of completion.

Index to all tower bell instruments in Italy.

*Status:
   This page was built from the database on  4-May-22
   based on textual data last updated on 2022/03/19
   and on technical data last updated on 2022/03/24
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