*Location:

   Museum Klok & Peel
   (was Nationaal Beiaard-
     en Natuurmuseum,
     originally Nationaal Beiaard-Museum)
   Ostaderstraat near Rootweg
   Asten, Noord-Brabant, Netherlands
   LL: N 51.40329, E 5.73369

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*Player:

   Jan Geven

*Contact:

   Museum Klok & Peel
   Ostaderstraat 23
   5721 WC Asten
   T: 0493-691865   F: 0493-697079
   E: info@museumklokenpeel.nl

*Schedule:

   (unknown)

*Remarks:

   Bells hang under roofpeak, indoors.
   Two bells by Francois Sijmon, 1635;
   nine by J.A.de Grave, 1722-7 (formerly
   in the Hattem carillon); one by
   Melchoir deHaze, undated.  Museum
   open 0930-1700 M-F, 1300-1700 Sat-Mon;
   contains many bells & exhibits of all
   kinds and ages.

*Technical data:

   Traditional chime (baton keyboard) of 18 bells
   Pitch of heaviest bell is F  in the treble octave
   Keyboard range:     F C   /    F C  8
   Transposition is up one octave
   There are two missing bass semitones
   There is no practice console
   The instrument was enlarged in 1975
     with  6 bells made by Eijsbouts    
   Prior history:
     Previously, work was done (as described in Remarks above)    
       with bells made by the maker cited in Remarks above
       Pitch of heaviest bell was unknown
       The arrangement of tones and/or semitones
         was non-standard; see Remarks above.
   No auxiliary mechanisms known
   Tower details: 
     Height of console:                  0 meters above ground
     Height of lowest level of bells:    5 meters above ground
     Height of highest level of bells:   6 meters above ground
     Belfry openness:   1%
   Year of latest technical information source is 2014

The Website of the Museum (formerly the Nationaal Beiaard- en Natuurmuseum Asten, or National Carillon and Nature Museum Asten) is ostensibly in three languages, though some pages (and some parts of pages) are only in Dutch.  The Carillon Museum (founded in 1969) merged with the Natural History Museum (founded in 1975) effective 1 Jan 2007.  The home page sometimes includes a photo of children at a 20-note baton keyboard.  Scroll down for an outdoors photo of the bells of the Springcarillon; in the background can be seen the green (oxidized copper) tower which holds an automatic carillon, as well as the peaked roof under which this chime and another hang indoors.

The de Grave bells are indexed under Hattem, from whence they came.
Where the final phase of this work lies in the sequence of output of the Eijsbouts bellfoundry, in this region and in the world.

Ranking among all Netherlands chimes by size (number of bells).
Ranking among all Netherlands chimes by pitch of largest bell.
Ranking among all Netherlands chimes by year of completion.

Index to all tower bell instruments in NL/Noord-Brabant, including the other five at this museum.

   This page was built from the database on 14-Oct-24
   based on textual data last updated on 2021/01/04
   and on technical data last updated on 1975/07/20