*Location:

   Schnitzelbank Restaurant
   Third Avenue at Giesler Road
   Jasper, Indiana, USA
   LL: N 38.38414, W 86.92420

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*Contact:

   Schnitzelbank Restaurant
   393 3rd Avenue
   Jasper, IN  47546
   T: 812-482-2640
   E: kim @ schnitzelbank DOTcom

*Schedule:

   Animation performance hourly from 1102
   to 2002 daily, with the Schnitzelbank
   song and the Beer Barrel Polka and
   recorded music; autoplay of the bells on
   the hour and half hour, 1000-2000.

*Remarks:

   Glockenspiel with four primary actions.
   Autoplay on 17 P&F bells (16 dated 1951,
   one dated 1952) plus an undecorated
   hour bell struck by clock jack.

*Technical data:

   Electric-automatic chime of 18 bells
   Pitch of heaviest bell is unknown
   Keyboard range:     ----  /    ----  
   Transposition is not applicable
   The arrangement of tones and/or semitones
     is non-standard; see Remarks above.
   The whole instrument was installed in 2025
     with bells made by Petit & Fritsen in 1951 (except for 1)
   No auxiliary mechanisms known
   Tower details: 
     Height of console:                  . meters above ground
     Height of lowest level of bells:    4 meters above ground
     Height of highest level of bells:   4 meters above ground
     Belfry openness:  98%
   Year of latest technical information source is 2025

News article (June 2025) on the forthcoming ribbon-cutting ceremony for the new glockenspiel.&Nbsp; (The previous and simpler version, built in 1988, had no bells.)

The restaurant has a Website and a Facebook presence.
Photo of Glockenspiel under construction, with 17 bells visible
Closeup of bells installed
Photo of 4 P&F bells awaiting installation

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

Index to all glockenspiels in the world.

Ranking among all North American chimes by size (number of bells).
Ranking among all North American chimes by weight (pitch).
Ranking among all North American chimes by year of completion.

Index to all tower bell instruments in IN.

   This page was built from the database on  1-Aug-25
   based on textual data last updated on 2025/07/27
   and on technical data last updated on 2025/07/27