Added: Jan 1, 2012
Author: moondanseur
Time: 4:32
The Prague Loreta is an artistic and historical monument, the construction began on 3 June 1626. The carillon was given to the Loreta by the rich merchant from the Lesser Town, Eberhard von Glauchau. The author of all thirty signed bells (only one was damaged in the 18th century and replaced) was the Amsterdam town bell-founder Claudy Fremy, who made them between 1683-91. Over the next few months the Prague clockmaker Peter Neumann arranged the carillon and attached it to the clock mechanism of the tower in the facade; he created a mechanism on the principle of a metal cylinder with pegs for setting various melodies ('pantomúsos'). At the same time, the carillon can be controlled by means of a two-and-a-half octave keyboard on which various compositions are played up to the present day on church holidays. The tuning of the bells is relatively pure and thus the carillon can be used as a distinctive musical instrument. On 15 August 1695 the Loreta bells rang over the Prague roofs for the first time.http://www.loreta.cz
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