LEUVEN - SJD : BELGIUM

*Location:

   Sint-Jan-de-Doperkerk
   (St.John the Baptist Church)
   Groot Begijnhof
   (Schapenstraat gn)
   Leuven (Louvain), Brabant, Belgium
   LL: N 50.8711, E 4.6967

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*Schedule:

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*Remarks:

   Bells cast in 1928 as trebles for
   LEUVEN - UL; removed in 1983 enlargement.

*Technical data:

   Electric-automatic chime of 16 bells
   Pitch of heaviest bell is F  in the itty-bitty octave
   Transposition is up two octaves
   Keyboard range:     F G#  /    NONE  
   There are no missing bass semitones
   The whole instrument was installed in 1998
     with bells made by Gillett & Johnston in 1928
   Year of latest technical information source is 2008

*Links:

A Dutch-language page about the church has a photo of the building, which can be clicked for a huge version which clearly shows the small G&J bells in the lantern of the roofridge spire (dakruiterje).

Where this work lies in the sequence of output of the Gillett & Johnston bellfoundry, in this region and in the world.

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

Index to all traditional carillons in BE.

Index to all tower bell instruments in BE/Vlaamse Brabant, including the original location of these bells.

*Status:

   This page was built from the database on  9-Mar-08
   based on textual data last updated on 2008/03/07
   and on technical data last updated on 2008/03/07

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