*Location:

   Beffroi
   Hôtel de Ville (Stadhuis)
   Rue du Beffroi at Rue du Dauphin
   Charleroi, Hainaut, Belgium
   LL: N 50.41248, E 4.44362

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*Carillonist:

   Armand Bricq
   E: abricq@hotmail.com
      abricq@gmail.com

*Contact:

   Sécretariat communal de la Ville
     de Charleroi
   Hôtel de Ville
   Place Charles II
   6000 Charleroi
   T: 071/86 11 04

*Schedule:

   Special occasions

*Remarks:

   Restored 1977--details unknown.

*Technical data:

   Traditional carillon of 47 bells
   Pitch of heaviest bell is C  in the middle octave
   Transposition is nil (concert pitch)
   Keyboard range:     C C   /    C F   
   There are two missing bass semitones
   There is no practice console
   The whole instrument was installed in 1935
     with bells made by Michiels    
   Auxiliary mechanisms: M     
   Tower details not available
   Year of latest technical information source is 1972

The ACW Website has a clickable photo of the tower.

Tower photo

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

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

Index to all traditional carillons in BE.

Index to all tower bell instruments in BE/Hainaut.

   This page was built from the database on 10-Aug-15
   based on textual data last updated on 2015/08/05
   and on technical data last updated on 1979/03/13