Summary of instruments
by country and type
(worldwide)

Summarized areas	Traditional carillons	NT & unknown	Chimes	Total sites	Countries
by region
North America	181	121	700	1002	3
Central & South America	12	15	14	41	21
Africa & Mideast	6	6	17	29	10
Asia & Pacific Rim	9	11	93	113	9
British Isles	14	6	52	72	6
Europe	50	30	55	135	22
by country
Belgium	92	30	12	134	1
Denmark and dependencies	29	16	13	58	3
France	55	22	39	116	1
Germany	33	77	34	144	1
Italy	0	4	63	67	1
Netherlands	175	64	155	394	1
TOTALS:	653	401	1247	2304	79

EXPLANATIONS:

• Definitions of most regions should be obvious from their names.  "Europe" includes all European countries except those which are on the British Isles and those which are individually listed.  "Asia" is essentially eastern and southern Asia; Russia is included with Europe, and the Middle East is included with Africa.
• The countries listed individually or within the various regions are only those known to have tower bell instruments of the types which are of interest to this Website.  The choice of whether to index and summarize such instruments by country or by region was based largely on the following criteria:
  1. The three countries of North America, being the focus of interest of The Guild of Carillonneurs in North America, are treated as a unit and thus form a region.
  2. Outside of North America, those countries for which there are "large" numbers of tower bell instruments are treated individually.
  3. Those countries which have "small" numbers of tower bell instruments are grouped together in an approximate fit to the major continents.
  4. The relative definitions of "large" and "small" may change from time to time.  For example, Italy might have been categorized either way.
  The "Countries" column gives the number of countries in each region which have at least one tower bell instrument (of any kind) in the underlying database.
• Each region or country name which is hyperlinked but not italicized leads to a page from which you can find all of the indexes and summaries which have been produced for that region or country.  Those index pages are complete, in that they lead to site data pages for every known tower bell instrument in the corresponding region or country.  There is one exception:
  • For at least one area, the number of chime-sized instruments is italicized to reflect the fact that the database is known to be incomplete.  The reason for this incompleteness will be stated on the chime index pages for the area.
• Each country name which is hyperlinked and italicized leads to a page from which you can find all of the indexes and summaries which have been produced for that country.  Those index pages are incomplete, because not all of the site data pages for known tower bell instruments in that country have been posted yet.  Those pages will be produced eventually.
• Country names which are not hyperlinked have not yet been supplied with indexes or summaries because none (or very few) of the corresponding site data pages have been extracted from the underlying database.  (If "very few", then those few are temporary included within Europe.) But producing such pages, indexes and summaries is planned.
• Types:
  • "Traditional carillons" are those equipped with baton keyboard and mechanical transmission.
  • "NT & unknown" includes non-traditional carillons, carillon-sized collections and carillon-sized instruments with unknown mechanism.
  • "Chimes" includes all types of instruments and collections with 8 to 22 bells (but rings in the British Isles, Australia and New Zealand are not listed).

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This page was created 2006/04/18 and last revised 2008/01/02.

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