OYAMA : JAPAN

*Location:

   Clock tower
   Omoigawa Parking Lot
   Oyama, Tochigi, Honshu, Japan
   LL: N 36.18, E 139.48

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*Contact:

   Carillonneur, Ltd.
   E: info@carillonneur.co.jp

*Schedule:

   Triggered by movement of weather vane.

*Remarks:

   9 bells computer-controlled; one bell
   rung by rope on special occasions.

*Technical data:

   Electric-automatic chime of 10 bells
   Pitch of heaviest bell is unknown
   Transposition is unknown
   Keyboard range:     ----  /    NONE  
   The arrangement of tones and/or semitones
     is non-standard; see Remarks above.
   The whole instrument was installed in 2???
     with bells made by Paccard     
   Year of latest technical information source is 2008

*Links:

Photos and description

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

Ranking among all Asia and the Pacific Rim chimes by pitch (weight).
Ranking among all Asia and the Pacific Rim chimes by size (number of bells).
Ranking among all Asia and the Pacific Rim chimes by year of completion.

Index to all tower bell instruments in Japan.

*Status:

   This page was built from the database on 28-Jan-09
   based on textual data last updated on 2008/12/30
   and on technical data last updated on 2008/12/30

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