*Location:

   Museum Klok & Peel
   (was Nationaal Beiaard-
     en Natuurmuseum,
   originally Nationaal Beiaard-Museum)
   Ostaderstraat near Rootweg
   Asten, Noord-Brabant, Netherlands
   LL: N 51.40330, E 5.73380

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*Player:

   (unknown)

*Contact:

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

*Schedule:

   (unknown)

*Remarks:

   Keyboard Y41:CF/CF, bells connected to
   second octave of manual only;
   all silent keys are sprung.

*Technical data:

   Traditional chime (baton keyboard) of 13 bells
   Pitch of heaviest bell is unknown
   Transposition is unknown
   Keyboard range:     C C  */    * *   
   There are no missing bass semitones
   The whole instrument was installed in unknown year
     with bells made by Eijsbouts   
   No auxiliary mechanisms known
   Tower details not available
   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 one hang indoors.  The location of the fourth chime is uncertain.

Where 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  4-Jan-21
   based on textual data last updated on 2021/01/04
   and on technical data last updated on 2015/09/26