*Location:

   Collégiale Notre-Dame
   Rue Adolphe Sax at Rue Petite
   Dinant, Namur, Belgium
   LL: N 50.2610, E 4.9121

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*Carillonist:

   Fabrice Renard
   E: fabricerenard@yahoo.fr
   - and -
   Thierry Bouillet
   E: thierry/@/bouillet DOTbe

*Contact:

   The Collegiate Church of Our Lady
   Rue Adolphe Sax 1
   5500 Dinant
   T: 082 22 22 07

*Schedule:

   (unknown)

*Remarks:

   Old bells, by Slegers-Causard, were
   stolen in 1943.
   An older carillon, small, automatic
   only, was taken or destroyed in WW I.
   Equal temperament.
   Unknown which tower holds these bells.

*Technical data:

   Traditional carillon of 50 bells
   Pitch of heaviest bell is C  in the treble octave
   Transposition is up one octave
   Keyboard range:     C D   /    C A   
   There is one missing bass semitone
   The presence or absence of a practice console is unknown
   The whole instrument was installed in 2008
     with bells made by Eijsbouts   
   Prior history:
     In 1930, a complete instrument of 35 bells was installed
       with bells made by Causard     
       (0 bells remain from that work.)
   No auxiliary mechanisms known
   Tower details not available
   Year of latest technical information source is 2021

Additional information on the technical history of this instrument can be found in a database printout.

Where the initial phase of this work lies in the sequence of output of the Causard bellfoundry, in this region and in the world.
Where the final phase of this work lies in the sequence of output of the Eijsbouts 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/Namur.

   This page was built from the database on 16-Sep-22
   based on textual data last updated on 2022/09/11
   and on technical data last updated on 2022/07/20