MANILA - QP : PHILIPPINES

*Location:

   Shrine of Our Lady Queen of Peace
   (Our Lady of EDSA)
   Epifanio de los Santos Avenue (EDSA)
     at Ortigas Avenue
   Mandaluyong
   Manila, Philippines
   LL: N 14.5926, E 121.0586
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*Contact:

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*Schedule:

   (unknown)

*Remarks:

   Dutch bells

*Technical data:

   Electric-automatic chime of 18 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 1989
     with bells made by an unknown maker
   No auxiliary mechanisms known
   Tower details not available
   Year of latest technical information source is 2008
*Links:

Photo of the bell tower at EDSA Shrine; both the bells and the statue were cleaned "in time for the 22nd anniversary of the 1st EDSA People Power Revolution".

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 Philippines.

*Status:
   This page was built from the database on  4-Dec-12
   based on textual data last updated on 2011/11/19
   and on technical data last updated on 2008/02/20
*Photos:

(none available)


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