THUIN : BELGIUM

*Location:

   Beffroi (Belfort)
   Place Albert 1er (Grand'Rue)
   Thuin, Hainaut, Belgium
   LL: N 50.33963, E 4.28656

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*Schedule:

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*Technical data:

   Electric-automatic carillon of 31 bells
   Pitch of heaviest bell is B  in the middle octave
   Transposition is unknown
   Keyboard range:     ----  /    ----  
   The instrument was enlarged in 1939
     with  7 bells made by Michiels    
   Prior history:
     In 1936, the instrument was begun with an unknown number of bells
       by Causard     
       (24 bells remain from that work.)
   Year of latest technical information source is 1952

Additional information on the technical history of this instrument can be found in a database printout.

*Links:

Page in Dutch with 2 photos of the bell tower - all clickable for much larger versions.

Where the initial phase of this work lies in the sequence of output of miscellaneous bellfoundries, in this region and in the world.
Where the final phase of this work lies in the sequence of output of the Michiels bellfoundry, in this region and in the world.

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

Index to all traditional carillons in BE.

Index to all tower bell instruments in BE/Hainaut.

*Status:

   This page was built from the database on 10-Feb-10
   based on textual data last updated on 2010/01/26
   and on technical data last updated on 1992/06/06

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