*Location:

   Queen's Park
   Watt Street, east of Lion Monument
     and Veterans Steps
   Whanganui (Wanganui),
     North Island, New Zealand
   LL: S 39.93184, E 175.05306

Site locator map
City locator maps and gazetteer page

*Player:

   (unknown)

*Contact:

   T: 0800 92 64 26

*Schedule:

   Autoplay hourly, from punched plastic
   tape.

*Remarks:

   Gift of Dutch firm P.J.Zweggers en
   Zonen to mark the opening of that farm
   equipment company's factory in this
   city; installation by Emmett Brothers.
   Whanganui was named Wanganui til 2015.
   2-octave keyboard and auto controls
   in plinth below bells.

*Technical data:

   Electric-keyboard chime of 18 bells
   Pitch of heaviest bell is unknown
   Transposition is unknown
   Keyboard range:     ----  /    ----  
   The arrangement of tones and semitones is unknown.
   The whole instrument was installed in 1981
     with bells made by Petit & Fritsen
   No auxiliary mechanisms known
   Tower details: 
     Height of console:                  0 meters above ground
     Height of lowest level of bells:    3 meters above ground
     Height of highest level of bells:   6 meters above ground
     Belfry openness:  99%
   Year of latest technical information source is 2020

A page about the bells has a photo of the tower and recounts the origin of the instrument.

A geocaching page has a longer description, but no photo.

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 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 New Zealand.

   This page was built from the database on 26-Mar-20
   based on textual data last updated on 2020/03/21
   and on technical data last updated on 2020/03/21