Courtyard zvon

*Location:

   St.Theodosius Pechersky Monastery
   (Tserkva Feodosivskii)
   Lavrska Street at Tsytadelna Street
   Kiev, Ukraine
   LL: N 50.43322, E 30.55480

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*Player:

   (unknown)

*Contact:

   (unknown)

*Schedule:

   (unknown)

*Remarks:

   Number of bells estimated from photo

*Technical data:

   Zvon of 20 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 20__
     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:   3 meters above ground
     Belfry openness:  99%
   Year of latest technical information source is 2022

Google StreetView image (Mar.2017); clearly there are 12 medium bells on the perimeter of the main frame, and possibly 8 small bells on the center crossbar.

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).
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Ranking among all European chimes by year of completion.

Index to all tower bell instruments in Ukraine.

   This page was built from the database on 28-May-22
   based on textual data last updated on 2022/05/23
   and on technical data last updated on 2022/05/27