KITCHENER - O : CANADA - ON

*Location:

   Kitchener-Waterloo Oktoberfest
   Benton Building east entrance
   Benton Street at King Street East
     (Speakers' Corner)
   Kitchener (originally named Berlin),
     Ontario, Canada
   LL: N 43.44903, W 80.48813

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*Contact:

   Kitchener-Waterloo Oktoberfest
   *parcel:
     17 Benton Street
     Kitchener, ON  N2G
   *postal:
     Box 1053
     Kitchener, ON  N2G 4G1
   T: (519)570-HANS  or  1-888-294-HANS
   F: (519)742-3072
   E: info@oktoberfest.ca

*Schedule:

   (unknown)

*Remarks:

   Glockenspiel with animation of
   Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs;
   opposite the Oktoberfest office.
   Previous report of traditional keyboard
   was incorrect.

*Technical data:

   Electric-automatic carillon of 23 bells
   Pitch of heaviest bell is G  in the treble octave
   Transposition is not applicable
   Keyboard range:     ----  /    ----  
   The arrangement of tones and semitones is unknown.
   The whole instrument was installed in 1976
     with bells made by Eijsbouts   
   Year of latest technical information source is 2005

*Links:

The Website of the Kitchener-Waterloo Oktoberfest makes no mention of this instrument.

The Wikipedia article about this Oktoberfest also doesn't mention bells.

No photo of this glockenspiel has been found, but there are text mentions of a "huge glockenspiel in downtown Kitchener by Speakers' Corner" and "downtown Kitchener across near the glockenspiel on the corner of King St. and Frederick St."

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

Ranking among all North American non-traditional carillons by weight.
Ranking among all North American non-traditional carillons by size (number of bells).

Index to all tower bell instruments in ON.

*Status:

   This page was built from the database on 26-Dec-11
   based on textual data last updated on 2010/10/01
   and on technical data last updated on 2005/03/04

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