*Location:

   The Wawel Royal Cathedral of
     St.Stanislaus B.M. & St.Wenceslaus M.
   Wavel Castle
   Krakow (Cracow), Poland
   LL: N 50.05498, E 19.93561

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*Player:

   (unknown)

*Contact:

   (unknown)

*Schedule:

   (unknown)

*Remarks:

   Five bells in the Cathedral belfry
   plus four in the Silver Tower.

*Technical data:

   Chime-sized instrument with action described in Remarks above of  9 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 unknown year
     by the maker cited in Remarks above
   No auxiliary mechanisms known
   Tower details not available
   Year of latest technical information source is 2013

Where this work lies in the sequence of output of unknown bellfoundries, in this region and in the world.

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

Where the bass bell in the Cathedral belfry ranks among all great bells in Europe.
Where the second bell in the Cathedral belfry ranks among all great bells in Europe.

Index to all tower bell instruments in Poland.

   This page was built from the database on 15-Nov-20
   based on textual data last updated on 2020/11/11
   and on technical data last updated on 2020/11/11