DRUTEN : NETHERLANDS

*Location:

   "Boldershof"
   Ambtshuisplein 69
   Druten, Gelderland, Netherlands
   LL: N 51.8932, E 5.6073
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*Contact:

   (unknown)

*Schedule:

   (unknown)

*Remarks:

   Former mental hospital being converted
   to residences; location or
   disposition of bells unknown

*Technical data:

   Electric-automatic chime of 18 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 1982
     with bells made by Eijsbouts   
   No auxiliary mechanisms known
   Tower details not available
   Year of latest technical information source is 1991
*Links:

An article about the history of this facility (a former mental hospital, now being converted to residences) has one photo of it, but no clue as to where these bells might be.

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/Gelderland.

*Status:
   This page was built from the database on  6-Apr-19
   based on textual data last updated on 2019/03/21
   and on technical data last updated on 1992/07/07
*Photos:

(none available)

Explanations of page format and keyboard range are available.

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