*Location:

   Sint-Niklaaskerk
   Kerkstraat at Pastorijstraat
   Neerpelt, Limburg, Belgium
   LL: N 51.22857, E 5.43177

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*Carillonist:

   Jan Verheyen
   E: verheyenjan@gmail.com

*Contact:

   (unknown)

*Schedule:

   Autoplay on the hour;
   concerts Saturday 1030-1130

*Remarks:

   Two bells by Petit & Fritsen, 1967
   (possibly 2 of the 4 church bells)

*Technical data:

   Traditional carillon of 48 bells
   Pitch of heaviest bell (excluding sub-bourdon) is A  in the middle octave
   Keyboard range: (G )C C   /    ----  
   Transposition is up  9 semitone(s), i.e., from C to A 
   There are two missing bass semitones
   The presence or absence of a practice console is unknown
   The whole instrument was installed in 2015
     with bells made by Eijsbouts     (except for 2)
   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 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 LI/Limburg.

   This page was built from the database on 14-Oct-24
   based on textual data last updated on 2022/01/29
   and on technical data last updated on 2021/10/30