Industrial Carillon

*Location:

   Nikola-Lenivets art park
   (Acoustic Glade)
   Kaluga Oblast, Russia
   LL: N 54.7536, E 35.6048

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*Player:

   (unknown)

*Contact:

   Nikola-Lenivets art park
   T: (495)150 54 75
   E: welcome@nikola-lenivets.ru

*Schedule:

   (unknown)

*Remarks:

   At least 11 very fat tubular bells,
   made from used oxygen cylinders;
   rung by hand with ropes from internal
   clappers.

*Technical data:

   Chime-sized instrument or collection of 11 tubular 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 2019
     with bells made by an unknown maker
   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:  80%
   Year of latest technical information source is 2023

A project page reports that the architectural and musical installation “Industrial Carillon” was installed on the territory of the “Acoustic Glade” in the Nikola-Lenivets art park on the eve of the SIGNAL 2019 music festival.  Photo Scroll down for more photos.

The Website of the art park has contact information and many photos, but does not appear to mention this installation.

The Russian Wikipedia article about the art park does not appear to mention this installation.

These being tubular bells, they are not indexed by pitch (weight).
Ranking among all European chimes by size (number of bells).
Ranking among all European chimes by year of completion.

Index to all tower tube instruments in the world.
Index to all tower bell instruments in Russia.

   This page was built from the database on  9-Feb-24
   based on textual data last updated on 2024/02/07
   and on technical data last updated on 2024/02/07