Carillon Symphonica
*Location:
Inside carillon museum Museumstad Huis ten Bosch Sasebo, Nagasaki, Kyushu, Japan LL: N 33.08391, E 129.78881
*Player:
(unknown)
*Contact:
Huis ten Bosch Huis ten Bosch-Cho Sasebo City, Nagasaki T: 956/27-0526 [Int'l Sales Dept.] E: intsales@huistenbosch.co.jp
*Schedule:
(unknown)
*Remarks:
Originally reported as 37 bells, but a recent photo shows 47 notes on the clavier.
*Technical data:
Traditional carillon of 47 bells Pitch of heaviest bell is E in the treble octave Transposition is up 16 semitone(s) Keyboard range: F C 44/ C G There are two missing bass semitones The whole instrument was installed in 1991 with bells made by Eijsbouts Year of latest technical information source is 1991
*Links:
A visitor's report about Huis ten Bosch has photos of the drum, keyboard and bells (near the bottom of a rather large page). The keyboard photo is the evidence cited in Remarks above.
Where this work lies in the sequence of output of the Eijsbouts bellfoundry, in this region and in the world.
Ranking among all Asian & Pacific Rim traditional carillons by pitch (weight).
Ranking among all Asian & Pacific Rim traditional carillons by size (number of bells).
Ranking among all Asian & Pacific Rim traditional carillons by year of completion.
Index to all traditional carillons in Japan.
Index to all tower bell instruments in Japan.
*Status:
This page was built from the database on 15-Jan-07 based on textual data last updated on 2007/01/07 and on technical data last updated on 2007/01/07
Explanations of page format and keyboard range are available.
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