VENEGONO INFERIORE : ITALY - VA

*Location:

   Seminario Arcivescovile
   (Archepiscopal Seminary)
   Venegono Inferiore, Varese, Italy
   LL: N 45.73454, E 8.90868
Site locator map
City locator maps and gazetteer page for adjacent Venegono Superiore (Province is missing; other data are assumed correct.)

*Player:

   (unknown)

*Contact:

   Segretariato per il Seminario
   Via Papa Pio XI, 32
   21040 Venego Inferiore (VA)
   T: 02 85 56 278
   E: segretariato/@/seminario.milano.it
      info/@/seminario.milano.it

*Schedule:

   (unknown)

*Remarks:

   Cast by Angelo Bianchi, Varese.
   5 major diatonic bells mounted in the
   Ambrosian system, and usable;
   electric action unusable for many years

*Technical data:

   Carillon-sized instrument (without any workable playing mechanism) of 25 bells
   Pitch of heaviest bell is C# in the middle octave
   Transposition is unknown
   Keyboard range:     ----  /    ----  
   There are no missing bass semitones
   The whole instrument was installed in 1930
     with bells made by the maker cited in Remarks above
   Auxiliary mechanisms: W5nInO
   Tower details not available
   Year of latest technical information source is 2021
*Links:

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

Ranking among all Italian non-traditional carillons by pitch (weight).
Ranking among all Italian non-traditional carillons by size (number of bells).
Ranking among all Italian non-traditional carillons by year of completion.

Index to all tower bell instruments in Italy.

*Status:
   This page was built from the database on 28-Mar-22
   based on textual data last updated on 2022/03/27
   and on technical data last updated on 2022/03/27
*Photos:

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