LOS BANOS : PHILIPPINES

   Rizal Centenary Carillon

*Location:

   Lower campus
   University of the Philippines Los Baños
   Los Baños, Laguna, Philippines
   LL: N 14.15927, E 121.24239

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*Contact:

   Office of Public Relations
   University of the Philippines Los Baños
   Los Baños, Laguna, Philippines
   T: (049)536-3604
   E: opr@uplb.edu.ph

*Schedule:

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*Remarks:

   Reports of 36 bells appear to be wrong.

*Technical data:

   Electric-automatic carillon of 37 bells
   Pitch of heaviest bell is G  in the middle octave
   Transposition is up 14 semitone(s)
   Keyboard range:     F G   /    NONE  
   There are two missing bass semitones
   The whole instrument was installed in 1996
     with bells made by an unknown maker
   Year of latest technical information source is 2008

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Index to all tower bell instruments in Philippines.

*Status:

   This page was built from the database on 29-Sep-08
   based on textual data last updated on 2008/08/24
   and on technical data last updated on 2008/08/24

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