ALMERE - L : NETHERLANDS

*Location:

   Oecumenical kerk "De Lichtboog"
   Klokkeluiderstraat at Meesterstraat
   Almere-Stad, Flevoland, Netherlands
   LL: N 52.37070, E 5.21424
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*Carillonist:

   Gerda Peters
   E: gerda-menno/@/hetnet DOTnl
   - and -
   Bauke Reitsma
   E: baukereitsma/@/xmsnet DOTnl

*Contact:

   (unknown)

*Schedule:

   (unknown)

*Remarks:

   Ecumenical church building shared by
   Catholic & Protestant congregations.

*Technical data:

   Traditional carillon of 50 bells
   Pitch of heaviest bell is unknown
   Transposition is unknown
   Keyboard range:     ----  /    ----  
   The arrangement of tones and semitones is unknown.
   The presence or absence of a practice console is unknown
   The instrument was enlarged in unknown year
     with bells made by an unknown maker
   Prior history:
     In 1984, the instrument was begun with 47 bells
       by Eijsbouts   
       Pitch of heaviest bell was A  in the middle octave
   Auxiliary mechanisms: E     
   Tower details not available
   Year of latest technical information source is 2012
*Links:

A page on Gerda Peters' Website has photos of all three towers and two of their keyboards.

The Dutch Wikipedia article about the building has a photo of the tower and mentions the carillon.

Where the initial phase of this work lies in the sequence of output of the Eijsbouts bellfoundry, in this region and in the world.
Where the final phase of this work lies in the sequence of output of unknown bellfoundries, in this region and in the world.

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

Index to all traditional carillons in Netherlands.

Index to all tower bell instruments in NL/Flevoland.

*Status:
   This page was built from the database on  5-Nov-23
   based on textual data last updated on 2019/06/01
   and on technical data last updated on 2012/12/18
*Photos:

(none available)

Explanations of page format and keyboard range are available.

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