*Location:

   Tour St.Joseph
   Place Maugrétout
   La Louvière, Hainaut, Belgium
   LL: N 50.47799, E 4.18865

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*Carillonist:

   Clarisse Desantoine
   E: clarisse.desantoine@hotmail.com

*Contact:

   Ville de la Louvière
   Place communale 1
   7100 La Louvière
   T: 064 27 78 11
   E: maisondutourisme@lalouviere.be

*Schedule:

   For festivals

*Technical data:

   Traditional carillon of 47 bells
   Pitch of heaviest bell is C  in the treble octave
   Keyboard range:     C C   /    C G   
   Transposition is up one octave
   There are two missing bass semitones
   The presence or absence of a practice console is unknown
   The whole instrument was installed in 1958
     with bells made by Michiels     
   No auxiliary mechanisms known
   Tower details not available
   Year of latest technical information source is 2021

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 14-Oct-24
   based on textual data last updated on 2022/07/20
   and on technical data last updated on 2022/07/20