LOKEREN : BELGIUM

*Location:

   Sint-Laurentiustoren
   Markt at Torenstraat
   Lokeren, Oost-Vlaanderen, Belgium
   LL: N 51.10414, E 3.99149
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*Carillonist:

   Tom Van Peer
   E: tom.van.peer/@/skynet DOTbe

*Contact:

   Cultureel Centrum Lokeren
   Torenstraat 1
   9160 Lokeren
   T: 09 340 50 51
   E: veva.van.acker/@/lokeren DOTbe

*Schedule:

   (unknown)

*Remarks:

   Bells by Horacantus-Eijsbouts.
   New "Keyboard 2000" by Richard Strauss,
   2006.

*Technical data:

   Traditional carillon of 49 bells
   Pitch of heaviest bell is A# in the bass octave
   Transposition is unknown
   Keyboard range:     ----  /    ----  
   The arrangement of tones and semitones is unknown.
   The whole instrument was installed in 1956
     with bells made by Eijsbouts   
   Auxiliary mechanisms: E     
   Tower details not available
   Year of latest technical information source is 1973
*Links:

An intended descriptive article page (in Dutch) from the VBV (Vlaamse Beiaard Vereniging) has a tower photo and a brief history, but no description.

Where 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/Oost-Vlaanderen.

*Status:
   This page was built from the database on 24-Oct-12
   based on textual data last updated on 2012/10/21
   and on technical data last updated on 1979/08/07
*Photos:

(none available)


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