GELDERN : GERMANY-BRD

*Location:

   Heilig-geist-kirche
   Gelderstraße at Heilig-Geist-Gasse
   Geldern, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany
   LL: N 51.51645, E 6.32479
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*Player:

   (unknown)

*Contact:

   Gemeindebüro
   Heilig-Geist-Gasse 2-4
   D-47608 Geldern
   T: 02831 80001   F: 02831 98 09 11
   E: evkggeldern@aol.com

*Schedule:

   (unknown)

*Technical data:

   Electric-keyboard carillon of 24 bells
   Pitch of heaviest bell is C  in the treble octave
   Transposition is up one octave
   Keyboard range:     C C   /    ----  
   There is one missing bass semitone
   The whole instrument was installed in 1970
     with bells made by Rincker     
   No auxiliary mechanisms known
   Tower details not available
   Year of latest technical information source is 1973
*Links:

The church Website has a photo of the building on the home page, with bells visible in the tower; but they are not mentioned anywhere in the text.

Where this work lies in the sequence of output of the Rincker bellfoundry, in this region and in the world.

Ranking among all German non-traditional carillons by weight.
Ranking among all German non-traditional carillons by size (number of bells).
Ranking among all German non-traditional carillons by year of completion.

Index to all tower bell instruments in Germany/Nordrhein-Westfalen.

*Status:
   This page was built from the database on  9-Mar-16
   based on textual data last updated on 2016/03/09
   and on technical data last updated on 1979/08/07
*Photos:

(none available)

Explanations of page format and keyboard range are available.

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