*Location:

   Santuario della Beata Vergine
     del Rosario di Pompei
   Piazza Bartolo Longo
   Via Romall at Via Piave
   Valle di Pompei, Napoli, Italy
   LL: N 40.74966, E 14.50010

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*Player:

   (unknown)

*Contact:

   Pontifica Santuario di Pompei
   Piazza Bartolo Longo 1
   80045 Pompei (NA)
   T: 081 857 7321
   E: info@santuariodipompei.it

*Schedule:

   (unknown)

*Remarks:

   Bells by Fratelli Marinelli di Agnone,
   Campobasso; octave with flat 7th
   instead of natural 7th.

*Technical data:

   Chime-sized instrument or collection of  8 bells
   Pitch of heaviest bell is G  in the bass octave
   Transposition is unknown
   Keyboard range:     ----  /    ----  
   There are no added semitones
   The whole instrument was installed in 1923
     by the maker cited in Remarks above
   No auxiliary mechanisms known
   Tower details not available
   Year of latest technical information source is 1991

The Website of the Sanctuary has a page about the campanile; visitors can take a lift to the belvedere at the top, for a view over the surroundings.

The Italian Wikipedia article about the Sanctuary has photos of the tower and a section about the campanile, with details of the bells.

Where this work lies in the sequence of output of miscellaneous 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 18-Apr-22
   based on textual data last updated on 2022/03/19
   and on technical data last updated on 2022/03/19