*Location:

   Hotel de Ville/Stadhuis
   Grand Place
   Huy (Hoei), Liège, Belgium
   LL: N 50.51826, E 5.24123

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*Contact:

   Administration Communale du Huy
   Grand Place 1
   4500 Huy
   T: 085 21 78 21

*Schedule:

   (unknown)

*Remarks:

   2 bells by Eijsbouts, bourdon by
   Jean Bodri.

*Technical data:

   Electric-automatic carillon of 38 bells
   Pitch of heaviest bell is F  in the middle octave
   Transposition is not applicable
   Keyboard range:     ----  /    NONE  
   The arrangement of tones and semitones is unknown.
   The whole instrument was installed in 1768
     with bells made by vandenGheyn  (except for 3)
   No auxiliary mechanisms known
   Tower details not available
   Year of latest technical information source is 1952

Tower photo (larger version available)

Quasi-aerial photo of the Grand Place (possibly taken from the northernmost point of the Fortress).  The town hall tower is just to the left of the tall church spire.

Where this work lies in the sequence of output of the Vanden Gheyn 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/Liège.

   This page was built from the database on 30-Nov-12
   based on textual data last updated on 2012/11/18
   and on technical data last updated on 1979/08/07

(none available)