POVOA DE VARZIM : PORTUGAL

*Location:

   Heart of Jesus Church
   Povoa de Varzim, Porto, Portugal
   LL: N 41.38, W 8.77
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*Player:

   (unknown)

*Contact:

   (unknown)

*Schedule:

   (unknown)

*Remarks:

   Also reported as 39 bells.

*Technical data:

   Electric-keyboard carillon of 35 steel 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
     with steel bells made by BochumStahl 
   No auxiliary mechanisms known
   Tower details not available
   Year of latest technical information source is 1973
*Links:

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

Ranking among all European non-traditional carillons by pitch (weight).
Ranking among all European non-traditional carillons by size (number of bells).
Ranking among all European non-traditional carillons by year of completion.

Index to all non-traditional carillons in Portugal.

Index to all tower bell instruments in Portugal.

*Status:
   This page was built from the database on  4-Dec-12
   based on textual data last updated on 1979/08/07
   and on technical data last updated on 1979/08/07
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