*Location:

   Chiesa di Nostra Signora Assunta
   Via Santa Maria del Campo,
     at Piazzale Antonio Canepa
   Santa Maria del Campo,
     fraz.Rapallo, Genova, Italy
   LL: N 44.35795, E 9.19364

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*Player:

   (unknown)

*Contact:

   Parrocchia di Santa Maria del Campo
   Via Castiglione, 1
   16035 Rapallo (GE)
   T: 0185 260027

*Schedule:

   (unknown)

*Remarks:

   Ligurian keyboard.
   First six bells installed 1957.
   Once reported as being in Recco, which
   is the next major town to the west.

*Technical data:

   Chime-sized instrument or collection of 12 bells
   Pitch of heaviest bell is unknown
   Transposition is unknown
   Keyboard range:     ----  /    ----  
   The arrangement of tones and semitones is unknown.
   Installation was completed in 1959
     with bells made by an unknown maker
   No auxiliary mechanisms known
   Tower details not available
   Year of latest technical information source is 1991

The Italian Wikipedia article about the church reports the installation of the first six bells in 1957, followed by six more in 1959, with the intention of later electrification.
The associated Wikimedia Commons category has two photos of the tower.

Where this work lies in the sequence of output of unknown bellfoundries, in this region and in the world.

Ranking among all Italian chimes by size (number of bells).
Ranking among all Italian chimes by pitch of largest bell.
Ranking among all Italian chimes by year of completion.

Index to all tower bell instruments in Italy.

   This page was built from the database on  4-May-22
   based on textual data last updated on 2022/03/24
   and on technical data last updated on 1991/10/20