MANUFACTURE


Beginning of the manufacture, total artisan of the bell. Through a drawing with aritiméticos calculations in one it works with wood (Chapelona), where the bell goes to gain the weight and the accurate musical note
definitive. In the survey of the form, a made up of clay is used.
 
Manufacturing the male (internal part of the bell)

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Phase of writing of the form bell, using letters of a proper wax, to make Holy Writ, drawings of saints and ornaments, applied on bell for

 


Application of a black mud, that it will copy (external part of the bell will transfer) to the writings.
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Last clay layer in the form( external part of the bell). It receives the name from shirt, therefore it will dress and it will assure the writing, also resisting the pressure of melted Bronze.

 


With the dry form, it confides form (Raising of the male) and is given the finishing.		    
Construction of the narrow channels, where the melted bronze will go to transit until being spilled to the
orifice of the form, that this pressed on the ground.		    
process of fusing of bronze to make the bells.

 

   
Carillon with 7 bells, with notes:

Bell 575 kg / musical note - SOL BEMOL
Bell 340 kg / musical note - LA;
Bell 205 kg/ musical note - DO
Bell 170 kg/ musical note - RE BEMOL
Bell 120 kg/ musical note - MI BEMOL
Bell 85 kg/ musical note - FA