*Location:
North tower
Catedral de Nuestra Señora de la
Immaculada Concepción
(Immaculate Conception Cathedral)
Zócalo (main square)
Puebla de Zaragoza, Puebla, Mexico
LL: N 19.04303, W 98.19870
*Player:
(unknown)
*Contact:
(unknown)
*Schedule:
(unknown)
*Remarks:
Bourdon (8 1/2 tonnes, cast 1729) and 10 other bells hung dead in lower belfry; 8 esquilas and 1 bell hung dead in upper belfry. Clappers of the dead-hung bells are roped or moved by hand. Second-largest cathedral in Mexico.
*Technical data:
Chime-sized instrument with action described in Remarks above of 19 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
Year of latest technical information source is 1991
*Links:
Ranking among all North American chimes by size (number of bells).
Ranking among all North American chimes by weight (pitch).
Ranking among all North American chimes by year of completion.
Where the bass bell of this collection ranks among other great bells in North America
Index to all tower bell instruments in Mexico.
*Status:
This page was built from the database on 26-Dec-11 based on textual data last updated on 2007/08/01 and on technical data last updated on 1992/01/01
Explanations of page format and keyboard range are available.
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