GBADOLITE : ZAIRE

*Location:

   Chapel
   Mausoleum of Mobutu Sese Seko
   Gbadolite (Badolite)
   Zaire (Democratic Republic of the Congo)
   LL: N 4.29, E 21.03

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*Player:

   (unknown)

*Contact:

   (unknown)

*Schedule:

   (unknown)

*Technical data:

   Electric-keyboard chime of 14 bells
   Pitch of heaviest bell is E  in the treble octave
   Transposition is up one octave
   Keyboard range:     E F#  /    ----  
   There are no missing bass semitones
   The whole instrument was installed in 1978
     with bells made by Rüetschi    
   Year of latest technical information source is 2004

*Links:

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

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

Index to all tower bell instruments in Zaire (ZR).

*Status:

   This page was built from the database on  9-Jan-08
   based on textual data last updated on 2007/11/01
   and on technical data last updated on 2007/11/01

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