*Location:

   Chapel
   Hiroshima Women's University
   Hiroshima, Honshu, Japan
   LL: N 34.3666, E 132.4689

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*Contact:

   Hiroshima Prefectural
     Women's University
   1-1-71 Ujina-Higashi
   Minami-ku, Hiroshima
   734-8558 Japan
   T: (082)251-5178  F: (082)251-9405
   E: gakusei1@hirojo-u.ac.jp

*Schedule:

   Six times daily

*Remarks:

   Dynamic-action electric strikers

*Technical data:

   Electric-automatic chime of 15 bells
   Pitch of heaviest bell is unknown
   Transposition is not applicable
   Keyboard range:     ----  /    ----  
   The arrangement of tones and semitones is unknown.
   The whole instrument was installed in 2???
     with bells made by Paccard     
   No auxiliary mechanisms known
   Tower details not available
   Year of latest technical information source is 2008

Photos and description

The university Website (English section)

Where this work lies in the sequence of output of the Paccard bellfoundry, in this region and in the world.

Ranking among all Asia and the Pacific Rim chimes by pitch (weight).
Ranking among all Asia and the Pacific Rim chimes by size (number of bells).
Ranking among all Asia and the Pacific Rim chimes by year of completion.

Index to all tower bell instruments in Japan.

   This page was built from the database on  4-Dec-12
   based on textual data last updated on 2009/04/14
   and on technical data last updated on 2008/12/30

(none available)