(Heavy zvon)
*Location:
Spaso-Preobrazhensky Monastery
(Transfiguration of the Savior)
Yaroslavl' (Jaroslavl), Russia
LL: N 57.6211, E 39.8895
*Player:
(unknown)
*Contact:
(unknown)
*Schedule:
(unknown)
*Technical data:
Zvon of 18 bells
Pitch of heaviest bell is unknown
Transposition is not applicable
Keyboard range: ZVON / ----
The arrangement of tones and/or semitones
is non-standard; see Remarks above.
Installation was completed in unknown year
with bells made by an unknown maker
Year of latest technical information source is 1993
*Links:
A page with four photos of the Monastery (click each to enlarge); all show the main bell tower, though three of the four appear to show it empty.
The main page of a group about the Monastery; click the photo at the top for a larger view of the whole area. It's not clear whether the heavy zvon and the light zvon are both in the main bell tower, or whether the light zvon is elsewhere in the Monastery grounds.
Several professional photos (Russian language pages) show the bell tower, a view from the Kotorosl River and a view from the belltower along the river.
Wikipedia image of the view from the Kotorosl River
A tourist's photo of the bell tower from outside the Monastery's walls
A tourist's photo of the bell tower from near its base
A tourism page offers a photo from yet another perspective.
Professional photo of bell tower and nearby buildings
Professional photo of bell tower (wait for photo to load; ignore the rest of the page)
Where this work lies in the sequence of output of unidentified bellfoundries,
in this region
and in the world.
Ranking among all European chimes by pitch (weight).
Ranking among all European chimes by size (number of bells).
Index to all zvons.
Index to all tower bell instruments in Russia.
*Status:
This page was built from the database on 5-Dec-06 based on textual data last updated on 2006/12/04 and on technical data last updated on 1995/04/22
Explanations of page format and keyboard range are available.
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