OTTAWA - C : CANADA - ON

*Location:

   Ottawa City Hall
   (formerly Concordia Building)
   Laurier Avenue, west of Rideau Canal
   Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
   LL: N 45.42107, W 75.69038

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*Contact:

   Ottawa City Hall
   110 Laurier Avenue West
   Ottawa, ON  K1P 1J1
   T: (613)580-2400   F: (613)580-2495
   E: info@ottawa.ca

*Schedule:

   A tune every quarter hour

*Remarks:

   Bells individually playable from a row
   of 8 buttons on the control panel

*Technical data:

   Electric-automatic chime of  8 bells
   Pitch of heaviest bell is D  in the middle octave
   Transposition is unknown
   Keyboard range:     NONE  /    NONE  
   There are no added semitones
   The whole instrument was installed in 1990
     with bells made by Taylor      
   Year of latest technical information source is 2004

*Links:

The city Website provides a main page from which one can eventually find a building photo and locator map - the bells are in the tall thin skeletal steel tower.

A local page of city history describes the relocations of City Hall and offers another perspective view of the present building.

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

Ranking among all North American chimes by size (number of bells).
Ranking among all North American chimes by weight (pitch).
Ranking among all North American chimes by year of completion.

Index to all tower bell instruments in ON.

*Status:

   This page was built from the database on 16-Apr-09
   based on textual data last updated on 2009/04/13
   and on technical data last updated on 2004/08/17

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