GELGAUDISKIS : LITHUANIA

*Location:

   Water tower
   Gelgaudiškis dvaras (Manor house)
   Parko gatvė
   Gelgaudiškis, Sakiai, Lithuania
   LL: N 55.07694, E 22.98108
Site locator map
City locator maps and gazetteer page

*Contact:

   City of Gelgaudiskis
   E: info@gelgaudiskis.lt

*Schedule:

   (unknown)

*Technical data:

   Electric-automatic carillon of 36 bells
   Pitch of heaviest bell is unknown
   Transposition is not applicable
   Keyboard range:     ----  /    ----  
   The arrangement of tones and semitones is unknown.
   The whole instrument was installed in 2015
     with bells made by an unknown maker
   No auxiliary mechanisms known
   Tower details not available
   Year of latest technical information source is 2022
*Links:

The Lithuanian Wikipedia article on this carillon has three photos, which show that the old water tanks remain in place above the bells.

YouTube video (1:20) of automatic play on the carillon

Where this work lies in the sequence of output of unknown bellfoundries, in this region and in the world.

Ranking among all European non-traditional carillons by pitch (weight).
Ranking among all European non-traditional carillons by size (number of bells).
Ranking among all European non-traditional carillons by year of completion.

Index to all tower bell instruments in Lithuania.

*Status:
   This page was built from the database on 23-Jul-23
   based on textual data last updated on 2023/07/19
   and on technical data last updated on 2023/01/12
*Photos:

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