DIKSMUIDE - I : BELGIUM

*Location:

   IJzertoren
   IJzerdijk near IJzerlaan
   Diksmuide (Diksmude, Dixmude),
     West-Vlaanderen, Belgium
   LL: N 51.03170, E 2.85219

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*Contact:

   IJzerbedevaartcomité
   IJzerdijk 49
   8600 Diksmuide
   T: 051 50 02 86   F: 051 50 22 58
   E: info@ijzertoren.org

*Schedule:

   (unknown)

*Remarks:

   Tower completed 1965

*Technical data:

   Electric-automatic carillon of 37 bells
   Pitch of heaviest bell is unknown
   Transposition is not applicable
   Keyboard range:     ----  /    ----  
   The arrangement of tones and semitones is unknown.
   The whole instrument was installed in unknown year
     with bells made by Sergeys     
   Year of latest technical information source is 1978

*Links:

The official Website of the tower (Dutch only, though a 4-language leaflet can be downloaded) opens with a photo of the upper part of the tower, but these bells are not mentioned.

The Wikipedia article about the tower has a photo, but no mention of the bells.

The Wikipedia article about the town has a photo of the monument and mentions the bells.

Where this work lies in the sequence of output of the Sergeys 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/West-Vlaanderen.

*Status:

   This page was built from the database on  9-Feb-12
   based on textual data last updated on 2012/02/01
   and on technical data last updated on 1979/08/07

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