GHAJNSIELEM : MALTA

*Location:

   Ghajnsielem Parish Church
   Church Square
   Ghajnsielem, Malta
   LL: N 36.02637, E 14.28963
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*Player:

   (unknown)

*Contact:

   (unknown)

*Schedule:

   (unknown)

*Remarks:

   Bells by Cornille-Havard; all swing and
   have electric hammers for clock
   strike and automatic play;
   notes are F,A,C,F,G,A,Bb,C.
   Dedicated Aug.2011.

*Technical data:

   Chime-sized instrument or collection of  8 bells
   Pitch of heaviest bell is F  in the middle octave
   Transposition is nil (concert pitch)
   Keyboard range:     F C   /    NONE  
   The arrangement of tones and/or semitones
     is non-standard; see Remarks above.
   The whole instrument was installed in 2011
     by the maker cited in Remarks above
   Year of latest technical information source is 2011

*Links:

News article about these bells

Where this work lies in the sequence of output of the Cornille-Havard bellfoundry, in this region and in the world.

Ranking among all European chimes by size (number of bells).
Ranking among all European chimes by pitch of largest bell.
Ranking among all European chimes by year of completion.

Index to all tower bell instruments in Malta.

*Status:

   This page was built from the database on 22-Oct-11
   based on textual data last updated on 2011/08/29
   and on technical data last updated on 2011/08/29


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