*Location:

   Glockenspiel Tower
   Bavarian Inn
   713 South Main Street
   Frankenmuth, Michigan, USA
   LL: N 43.32746, W 83.73971

Site locator map  or 
Also see our own Map Use Hints.

*Player:

   Donalee Williams

*Contact:

   Bavarian Inn
   713 South Main Street
   Frankenmuth, MI  48734
   T: (517)652-9985
   E: jcrawford@bavarianinn.com

*Schedule:

   Automatic play daily at 1100, 1200,
   1500, 1700, 1800, 2100, 2200, for 15
   minutes, with animation of the legend
   of the Pied Piper of Hameln
   (Hamelin, Germany).

*Remarks:

   Mechanism by Korfhage.
   Dual electric keyboards.
   Cambridge (Westminster) quarters.
   Refurbished in 2017.

*Technical data:

   Electric-keyboard carillon of 35 bells
   Pitch of heaviest bell is unknown
   Transposition is unknown
   Keyboard range:     ----  /    ----  
   The arrangement of tones and semitones is unknown.
   The whole instrument was installed in 1967
     with bells made by Eijsbouts   
   Auxiliary mechanisms: EQ5   
   Tower details: 
     Height of console:                  . meters above ground
     Height of lowest level of bells:   13 meters above ground
     Height of highest level of bells:  15 meters above ground
     Belfry openness:  99%
   Year of latest technical information source is 1988

The heavily commercial Website for this tourist attraction in "Michigan's Little Bavaria" presents several different illustrations of the restaurant tower, with its bells and animated figures, on various pages.  The Restaurant page has the best, and includes a description of the instrument.

A news article (Jul'18) is accompanied by a night photo of the bell tower.

News article (Nov'17) with photo of tower; earlier this year, internal mechanisms were redone and figures were refurbished & repainted.

Waymarking page or here or here

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

Index to all glockenspiels in the world.

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

Index to all tower bell instruments in MI.

   This page was built from the database on  5-May-18
   based on textual data last updated on 2017/11/30
   and on technical data last updated on 1993/00/00