TOKYO - SWU : JAPAN

*Location:

   University Building One
   Showa Women's University
   Junior-Senior High School
   Tokyo, Japan
   LL: N 35.6785, 139.7375
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*Player:

   (unknown)

*Contact:

   Showa Women's University
   Taishido 1-7
   Setagaya-ku, Tokyo 154-8533
   T: 3/424-9128
   - or -
   International Cooperation Office
   T: 3-3411-5249
   E: ico@swu.ac.jp

*Schedule:

   (unknown)

*Remarks:

   Dutch-made, pre-1987.

*Technical data:

   Chime-sized instrument or collection of 21 bells
   Pitch of heaviest bell is unknown
   Transposition is unknown
   Keyboard range:     ----  /    ----  
   The arrangement of tones and semitones is unknown.
   Installation was completed in unknown year
     with bells made by an unknown maker
   No auxiliary mechanisms known
   Tower details: 
     Height of console:                  . meters above ground
     Height of lowest level of bells:    . meters above ground
     Height of highest level of bells:  35 meters above ground
     Belfry openness:  99%
   Year of latest technical information source is 1993
*Links:

On the University Website, the History page has a building photo which appears to show these bells.

Where this work lies in the sequence of output of unknown bellfoundries, 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  4-Dec-12
   based on textual data last updated on 2006/12/12
   and on technical data last updated on 1995/04/15
*Photos:

(none available)


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