VILLARREAL - 1 : SPAIN

*Location:

   East tower 
   Basilica de San Pasqual
   Villarreal (Vila-real,
     Villarreal de los Infantes),
       Valenciana, Spain
   LL: N 39.93, W 0.10

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*Player:

  (unknown)

*Contact:

  (unknown)

*Schedule:

  (unknown)

*Remarks:

   Motor-driven flywheel-style ringing

*Technical data:

   Manually-swung peal of 12 bells
   Pitch of heaviest bell is C  in the middle octave
   Transposition is unknown
   Keyboard range:     NONE  /    NONE  
   The arrangement of tones and/or semitones
     is non-standard; see Remarks above.
   The whole instrument was installed in 19__
     with bells made by Paccard     
   Year of latest technical information source is 2006

*Links:

An overall inventory page from the same Website, with more photos (in Spanish and Valencian). An individual inventory page has a photo and description of each bell in both instruments.

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

Ranking among all European chimes 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 bell instruments in Spain, including the 72-bell carillon in the west tower.

*Status:

   This page was built from the database on  2-May-06
   based on textual data last updated on 2006/05/02
   and on technical data last updated on 2006/05/02

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