*Location:

   St.Giles Cathedral (High Kirk)
   Edinburgh, Scotland

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*Remarks:

   Bells by John Meikle, Edinburgh; were
   played from a conventional keyboard,
   though the keys were struck with
   mallets.  Became derelict in the 1870s,
   and was eventually removed; the bells
   were auctioned off in 1890, and only a
   a few survive in various places.

*Technical data:

   Carillon-sized instrument or collection, no longer in existence (defunct), of 23 bells
   Pitch of heaviest bell is unknown
   Keyboard range:     ----  /    ----  
   Transposition is unknown
   There are two missing bass semitones
   The whole instrument was installed in 1699
     with bells made by the maker cited in Remarks above            
   No auxiliary mechanisms known
   Tower details not available
   Year of latest technical information source is 2009

This site and its history are also described here.

Where this work lies in the sequence of output of the miscellaneous bellfoundries.

   This page was built from the database on 24-Feb-25
   based on textual data last updated on 2009/10/10
   and on technical data last updated on 2009/05/23