*Location:

   City Hall Tower
   Benthuizen, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands
   LL: N 52.076, E 4.545

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*Contact:

   (unknown)

*Schedule:

   (unknown)

*Remarks:

   Benthuizen is now a village in the
   municipality of Alphen aan den Rijn.

*Technical data:

   Electric-automatic chime of  9 bells
   Pitch of heaviest bell is C  in the itty-bitty octave
   Transposition is not applicable
   Keyboard range:     ----  /    ----  
   The arrangement of tones and semitones is unknown.
   The whole instrument was installed in 1965
     with bells made by Eijsbouts   
   No auxiliary mechanisms known
   Tower details not available
   Year of latest technical information source is 1991

The English Wikipedia article about the town reports a series of municipal mergers and name changes between 1991 and 2014; Benthuizen is now part of the municipality of Alphen aan den Rijn.

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/Zuid-Holland.

   This page was built from the database on 27-Mar-21
   based on textual data last updated on 2021/03/26
   and on technical data last updated on 1992/07/07