Tabor Bell
The Tabor bell was cast on March 30, 2012 in Innsbruck at the Grassmayr bell foundry . Their weight is 15,684 kg, their height 2.67 m, their diameter 2.87 m, the strike tone is d 0 +30 (in cents at a 1 = 440 Hz) or es 0 −8 (in HTS at a 1 = 435 Hz). It is the largest bell that the Grassmayr company has ever cast. It was made for a Greek Orthodox monastery on Mount Tabor in Israel.
literature
- Rüdiger Pfeiffer-Rupp and Ivo Radakovich: An es ° bell of 15 tons. Bell cast for Mount Tabor in Israel in Innsbruck , Die Auslese 3/2012, pp. 6–10 ( PDF ).
- Big bell for Mount Tabor in Israel (PDF, 1.2 MB) on the website of the Grassmayr foundry.
Web links
- Largest Grassmayr bell cast with 15 tons , article on the website of bell expert S. Wamsiedler dated June 7, 2012.
- Ringing taboo bell on YouTube .