*Location:

   North lawn
   Museo Veneto delle Campane
   (Venetian Bell Museum -- MuVeC)
   Villa Fogazzaro Colbachini
   Via Antonio Fogazzaro
     at Via Giuseppe Roi
   Montegalda, Vicenza, Italy
   LL: N 45.45061, E 11.66695

Site locator map
City locator maps and gazetteer page (for Montegaldella, adjacent)

*Player:

   Livio Zambotto

*Contact:

   Museo Veneto delle Campane
   Via A.Fogazzaro, 3
   36047 Montegalda (Vi)
   T: 0444/737526   F: 0444/735623
   E: info/@/muvec DOTit

*Schedule:

   For tour groups

*Remarks:

   Quasi-baton chimestand; added semitones
   are flat 7th & sharp octave.
   Museum established in 2002; on display
   are many old bells, claimed to be the
   second-largest such collection in
   Europe.

*Technical data:

   Traditional chime (baton keyboard) of 15 bells
   Pitch of heaviest bell is unknown
   Transposition is unknown
   Keyboard range:     C A   /    NONE  
   There are two added semitones
   The presence or absence of a practice console is unknown
   The whole instrument was installed in 20__
     with bells made by an unknown maker
   No auxiliary mechanisms known
   Tower details: 
     Height of console:                  0 meters above ground
     Height of lowest level of bells:    1 meters above ground
     Height of highest level of bells:   2 meters above ground
     Belfry openness:  99%
   Year of latest technical information source is 2023

The museum Website opens with a large photo of the chime in its open frame at ground level.  The Webform and the Google Map on the Contact page (Contatti) do not work (as of Oct.2023).

Photo of the chime in context

Video (1:04)

Video (1:15)

A report of a visit to the museum and the nearby Scuola Campanaria di San Marco has photos of these bells, the museum and the school.

Closeup partial view of bells and action

Where this work lies in the sequence of output of unknown bellfoundries, 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  9-Oct-23
   based on textual data last updated on 2023/10/08
   and on technical data last updated on 2023/10/08