ORANJESTAD - H : NED.ANTIL.

*Location:

   Holland Aruba Mall
   Havenstraat at Plaza Daniel Leo
   Oranjestad,
     Aruba, Netherlands Antilles
   LL: N 12.51994, W 70.03777
Site locator map
City locator maps and gazetteer page

*Contact:

   (unknown)

*Schedule:

   (unknown)

*Remarks:

   On building façade

*Technical data:

   Electric-automatic chime of 12 bells
   Pitch of heaviest bell is C  in the itty-bitty octave
   Transposition is not applicable
   Keyboard range:     ----  /    ----  
   The arrangement of tones and semitones is unknown.
   The whole instrument was installed in 1989
     with bells made by Eijsbouts   
   No auxiliary mechanisms known
   Tower details not available
   Year of latest technical information source is 1991
*Links:

An older photo, taken when the building was white and gray and the bells were in good condition.

Stock photo taken when the building had a cream-and-white color scheme

Small photo taken when the building had a blue-and-white color scheme

Closeup view with blue-and-white color scheme

More recent stock photo, showing an orange-and-white color scheme; some of the bells show significant corrosion (perhaps from birds?).

Front view with orange-and-white color scheme

Google Streetview image

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

Ranking among all Central and South American chimes by size (number of bells).
Ranking among all Central and South American chimes by pitch of largest bell.
Ranking among all Central and South American chimes by year of completion.

Index to all tower bell instruments in AN.

*Status:
   This page was built from the database on 30-Jan-20
   based on textual data last updated on 2020/01/28
   and on technical data last updated on 1992/07/17
*Photos:

(none available)

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