(new carillon)

*Location:

   Spasskaya Bashnya (The Savior Tower)
   Kremlin (east wall)
   Moskva (Moscow), Russia
   LL: N 55.75255, E 37.62142

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*Contact:

   (unknown)

*Schedule:

   Plays national anthem automatically

*Remarks:

   Latest bells cast by Vera LLC; the
   first set of their bells supplied with
   electric hammers instead of clappers.

*Technical data:

   Electric-automatic carillon of 29 bells
   Pitch of heaviest bell is unknown
   Transposition is not applicable
   Keyboard range:     ----  /    ----  
   The arrangement of tones and semitones is unknown.
   The instrument was enlarged in 2020
     with bells made by the maker cited in Remarks above        
   Prior history:
     Previously, the instrument was begun with 17 bells
       by an unknown maker
   No auxiliary mechanisms known
   Tower details not available
   Year of latest technical information source is 2020

News article (Oct.2020)

Where the initial phase of this work lies in the sequence of output of unidentified bellfoundries, in this region and in the world.
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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 non-traditional carillons in Europe.

Index to all tower bell instruments in Russia.

   This page was built from the database on  9-Feb-24
   based on textual data last updated on 2024/02/07
   and on technical data last updated on 2024/02/07