LOMMEL : BELGIUM

*Location:

   Sint-Pietersbandenkerk
   (St.Peter-in-chains Church)
   Lommel, Limburg, Belgium
   LL: N 51.231, E 5.310

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*Player:

   Liesbeth Janssens
   E: jliesbeth @ versateladsl DOTbe

*Contact:

   (unknown)

*Schedule:

   Saturday 1400-1500; summer recitals

*Remarks:

   2 bells by M.Michiels Jr., 1955

*Technical data:

   Traditional carillon of 63 bells
   Pitch of heaviest bell is A# in the bass octave
   Transposition is nil (concert pitch)
   Keyboard range:     --D   /    A#--  
   There are two missing bass semitones
   The whole instrument was installed in 2000
     with bells made by Eijsbouts    (except for 2)
   Year of latest technical information source is 2008

*Links:

Wikipedia page with photo (medium size), clickable for super-large version

Where this work lies in the sequence of output of the Eijsbouts bellfoundry, in this region and in the world.

Ranking among all Belgian traditional carillons by pitch (weight).
Ranking among all Belgian traditional carillons by size (number of bells).
Ranking among all Belgian traditional carillons by year of completion.

Index to all traditional carillons in BE.

Index to all tower bell instruments in BE/Limburg.

*Status:

   This page was built from the database on  9-Mar-08
   based on textual data last updated on 2008/03/04
   and on technical data last updated on 2008/03/04

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