*Location:

   Sct.Knuds Domkirke
   (Saint Canute's Cathedral)
   Skt.Knuds Plads
   (Klosterbakken at Klingenberg)
   Odense, Fyn (I. & Amt), Denmark
   LL: N 55.39536, E 10.38856

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*Carillonist:

   Anders Grankvist Skov

*Contact:

   Sct.Knuds Domkirke
   Klosterbakken 2
   DK-5000 Odense C
   T: 66 12 03 92
   E: 7774@sogn.dk,  svth@km.dk,
      sktknuds.domsogn@km.dk

*Schedule:

   (unknown)

*Remarks:

   Original bells by K.T.A.Sørensen,
   Brønderslev; now presumed removed,
   disposition unknown.  Carillon
   installation by K.E.Vestergaard,
   "Kevest". Also five old swinging bells,
   one being the oldest known dated
   Danish bell (1300).

*Technical data:

   Traditional carillon of 48 bells
   Pitch of heaviest bell is G  in the middle octave
   Keyboard range:     C C   /    C --  
   Transposition is up  7 semitone(s), i.e., from C to G 
   There is one missing bass semitone
   The presence or absence of a practice console is unknown
   The whole instrument was installed in 1989
     with bells made by Petit & Fritsen
   Prior history:
     In 1979, a complete instrument of 12 bells was installed
       with bells made by the maker cited in Remarks above
       (0 bells remain from that work.)
   Auxiliary mechanisms: E     
   Tower details not available
   Year of latest technical information source is 1992

The homepage of the cathedral Website has two photos of the building.  There is extensive information about the three organs, but nothing about the bells.  A photo of the building has clues to the unusual access to the tower.  From the doors in both outer front corners, stairs lead to passages above the ceiling of the side aisles to the side buttresses of the tower above the center window.  At least some of the bells of the carillon are in the lantern.

Where the initial phase of this work lies in the sequence of output of the Sørensen bellfoundry, in this region and in the world.
Where the final phase of this work lies in the sequence of output of the Petit & Fritsen bellfoundry, in this region and in the world.

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

Index to all traditional carillons in DK.

Index to all tower bell instruments in DK/Fyn.

   This page was built from the database on 14-Oct-24
   based on textual data last updated on 2006/08/12
   and on technical data last updated on 2014/08/05