*Location:

   Hôtel de Ville (Stadhuis/Belfort)
   Grand Place
   Binche, Hainaut, Belgium
   LL: N 50.41067, E 4.16563

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*Contact:

   Ville de Binche
   14 Rue Saint Paul
   B-7130 Binche
   T: 064 23 05 11   F: 064 34 13 71
   E: info/@/binche.be

*Schedule:

   (unknown)

*Remarks:

   Bells by Tordeur(9,1597) and
   Beullens(14,1897).
   Top & bottom C# missing.
   Ancient clavier disconnected.

*Technical data:

   Electric-automatic carillon of 25 bells
   Pitch of heaviest bell is C  in the treble octave
   Transposition is not applicable
   Keyboard range:     C D   /    C G  5
   The arrangement of tones and/or semitones
     is non-standard; see Remarks above.
   The instrument was enlarged in 1923
     with bells made by Michiels    
   Auxiliary mechanisms: M     
   Tower details not available
   Year of latest technical information source is 1972

Page in Dutch with 4 photos of the bell tower and building - all clickable for much larger versions.

The French Wikipedia article about the building has photos of it, but says nothing about any bells.

Where 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 tower bell instruments in BE/Hainaut.

   This page was built from the database on 25-Jul-22
   based on textual data last updated on 2022/07/20
   and on technical data last updated on 1979/03/13