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TORHOUT : BELGIUM

*Location:

   Sint-Pietersbandenkerk
   Zwanestraat
   Torhout (Thorhout, Thourhout),
     West-Vlaanderen, Belgium
Site locator map not applicable for defunct sites.

*Remarks:

   Bells by J. du Mery.
   Reported by William Gorham Rice in
   1914 & 1925, but without name or number,
   with variants of town name.
   Destroyed by war in 1915.

*Technical data:

   Carillon-sized instrument, no longer in existence (defunct), of 36 bells
   Pitch of heaviest bell is unknown
   Keyboard range:     ----  /    ----  
   Transposition is unknown
   The arrangement of tones and semitones is unknown.
   The whole instrument was installed in 1775
     with bells made by the maker cited in Remarks above            
   Auxiliary mechanisms: nB    
   Tower details not available
   Year of latest technical information source is 19**
*Links:

This site and its history are also described here.

Where this work lies in the sequence of output of miscellaneous bellfoundries.

*Status:
   This page was built from the database on 24-Feb-25
   based on textual data last updated on 2025/01/10
   and on technical data last updated on 2025/01/10
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