TACHIKAWA : JAPAN

*Location:

   Concert Hall plaza
   Kunitachi College of Music
   West of Tamagawa-Josui Station
   Musashimurayama
   Tachikawa, Tokyo, Japan
   LL: N 35.73309, E 139.41247
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*Contact:

   Office of Public Relations
   Kunitachi College of Music
   Kashiwa-Cho 5-5-1, Tachikawa-shi
   Tokyo, 190-8 Japan
   E: pr/@/kunitachi DOTac.jp

*Schedule:

   (unknown)

*Remarks:

   Donated by parents' association

*Technical data:

   Electric-automatic carillon of 47 bells
   Pitch of heaviest bell is G  in the middle octave
   Transposition is not applicable
   Keyboard range:     ----  /    NONE  
   There are two missing bass semitones
   The whole instrument was installed in 1984
     with bells made by Petit & Fritsen
   No auxiliary mechanisms known
   Tower details: 
     Height of console:                  . meters above ground
     Height of lowest level of bells:    2 meters above ground
     Height of highest level of bells:   5 meters above ground
     Belfry openness:  50%
   Year of latest technical information source is 2023
*Links:

A college page about the recital halls has a photo of the bells

Google StreetView image

Where this work lies in the sequence of output of the Petit & Fritsen bellfoundry, in this region and in the world.

Ranking among all Asia & Pacific Rim non-traditional carillons by pitch (weight).
Ranking among all Asia & Pacific Rim non-traditional carillons by size (number of bells).
Ranking among all Asia & Pacific Rim non-traditional carillons by year of completion.

Index to all tower bell instruments in Japan.

*Status:
   This page was built from the database on 26-Jul-23
   based on textual data last updated on 2023/07/21
   and on technical data last updated on 2023/07/21
*Photos:

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