HEERLEN : NETHERLANDS

*Location:

   Sint Pancratiustoren
   Pancratiusplein (Market Square)
   Heerlen, Limburg, Netherlands
   LL: N 50.88771, E 5.97978
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*Player:

   Frank Steijns, stadsbeiaardier
   E: info@franksteijns.com
*Past carillonneur:
   19??-97 Mathieu Steijns

*Contact:

   (unknown)

*Schedule:

   (unknown)

*Technical data:

   Traditional carillon of 47 bells
   Pitch of heaviest bell is D# in the middle octave
   Transposition is up  3 semitone(s)
   Keyboard range:     --C   /    C --  
   There are two missing bass semitones
   The whole instrument was installed in 1964
     with bells made by Eijsbouts    (except for 7)
   Year of latest technical information source is 1968

*Links:

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

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

Index to all traditional carillons in Netherlands.

Index to all tower bell instruments in NL.Limburg.

*Status:

   This page was built from the database on 23-Jan-10
   based on textual data last updated on 2010/01/20
   and on technical data last updated on 1975/07/20


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