Glockenspielbaum

*Location:

   Erich-Flory-Platz, bei Remigiushaus
   Schulstraße
   Otterstadt, Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany
   LL: N 49.37253, E 8.45481

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*Player:

   (unknown)

*Contact:

   Verein für Heimatpflege und Naturschutz
     Otterstadt e.V.
   E: info/@/vhno DOTde
      Webform @ vhno.de

*Schedule:

   Autoplay daily at 1220,1620

*Remarks:

   Bells by Bachert, Karlsruhe;
   MIDI keyboard

*Technical data:

   Electric-keyboard chime of 16 bells
   Pitch of heaviest bell is C  in the itty-bitty octave
   Transposition is up two octaves
   Keyboard range:     C E   /    NONE  
   There is one missing bass semitone
   The whole instrument was installed in 2021
     with bells made by the maker cited in Remarks above
   Auxiliary mechanisms: E     
   Tower details: 
     Height of console:                  . meters above ground
     Height of lowest level of bells:    7 meters above ground
     Height of highest level of bells:  10 meters above ground
     Belfry openness:  99%
   Year of latest technical information source is 2023

The DGV page about this chime has no photos.

The German Wikipedia article about the city has a short paragraph about the building, and a photo of it, but does not mention these bells.

The Website of the Verein has a gallery of 36 photos taken during construction, plus a video (2:28) that uses some of the same photos.

Where this work lies in the sequence of output of miscellaneous bellfoundries, in this region and in the world.

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

Index to all tower bell instruments in Germany/Rhineland-Palatinate.

   This page was built from the database on  9-Aug-23
   based on textual data last updated on 2023/08/02
   and on technical data last updated on 2023/08/02