*Location:

   Building facade
   Piazza Guglielmo Marconi,
     between Via Roma and Via Dolomites
   Canazei, Trento, Italy
   LL: N 46.47696, E 11.77084

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*Contact:

   Ufficio Turistico Informazioni Canazei
   Piaz G.Marconi 5
   38032 Canazei (TN)
   T: 0462 609600
   E: info@fassa.com

*Schedule:

   Daily action at 1100 and 1700

*Remarks:

   Glockenspiel; bells by Grassmayr

*Technical data:

   Electric-automatic chime of 19 bells
   Pitch of heaviest bell is G  in the itty-bitty octave
   Keyboard range:     G C#  /    NONE  
   Transposition is not applicable
   There are no missing bass semitones
   The whole instrument was installed in 2008
     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 2024

A YouTube video (3:28) plays "Silent Night" with still photos only.

A YouTube video (1:54) shows four pairs of dancing figures moving across in front of a clockface.  Unfortunately the sound is very soft.

An Italian-language discussion forum article has photos which can be opened.  Also here. (Use Google Translate to read the text.  Some embedded photos may appear in Google Translate when the don't in the original!)

As of Dec.2024, neither the English Wikipedia article about the town nor the corresponding Italian article mentions these bells, nor are they visible in the associated Wikimedia Commons category.

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

Ranking among all Italian chimes by size (number of bells).
Ranking among all Italian chimes by pitch of largest bell.
Ranking among all Italian chimes by year of completion.

Index to all tower bell instruments in Italy.

   This page was built from the database on 29-Dec-24
   based on textual data last updated on 2024/12/22
   and on technical data last updated on 2024/12/22