Tubular Bells - Leutascher Geisterklamm - Leutasch, Austria - Musical Instruments on Waymarking.com

In the Olympic region Seefeld, in the little village of Leutasch, you can visit a very impressive gorge. The parking space and the gate to the legendary gorge are located in the village of Schanz, close to the German border. This is also where the walk across the world of ghosts and elfs starts…

It’s an eerie place and a world of water and stone: in the Leutaschklamm gorge, a ghost is up to mischief. This is where it lives together with gorge goblins and water dwarfs. What is so particular in the 75 m deep gorge is its modern steel footbridge, as normally wooden footpaths and bridges are installed in canyons. In summer months the steel footbridge leads you the way high above the Leutascher Acher river and along the rock face.

The Leutaschklamm gorge can be explored on two different paths. The 3 km long Klammgeistweg path starts at the parking lot and leads into the gorge to a panorama bridge, where you return on a forest road. Along your walk the ghost of the gorge will brake secrets about his reign (approx. 1.5 hours).

The goblin path, however, takes you from the Klamm kiosk in Mittenwald into the Leutaschklamm gorge and meets the Klammgeistweg path at the panorama bridge. On this path goblins inform you about glaciers, stones and much more (approx. 1 hour).

Tubular bells (also known as chimes) are musical instruments in the percussion family. Their sound resembles that of church bells, carillon, or a bell tower; the original tubular bells were made to duplicate the sound of church bells within an ensemble. Each bell is a metal tube, 30–38 mm (1 1/4–1 1/2 in) in diameter, tuned by altering its length. Its standard range is C4–F5, though many professional instruments reach G5. Tubular bells are often replaced by studio chimes, which are a smaller and usually less expensive instrument. Studio chimes are similar in appearance to tubular bells, but each bell has a smaller diameter than the corresponding bell on tubular bells.

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