*Location:

   Sint-Pieterkerk
   Kerkstraat at Hofsgrêft
   Grouw, Leeuwarden,
     Friesland, Netherlands
   LL: N 53.09737, E 5.83990

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*Contact:

   Sint Piter Kerk
   Kerkstraat 4
   9001 AA  Grou

*Schedule:

   (unknown)

*Remarks:

   Also a swinging bell by Jurjen
   Balthasar, 1653

*Technical data:

   Electric-automatic chime of 12 bells
   Pitch of heaviest bell is G  in the treble octave
   Transposition is not applicable
   Keyboard range:     ----  /    ----  
   The arrangement of tones and semitones is unknown.
   The whole instrument was installed in 1988
     with bells made by Eijsbouts   
   No auxiliary mechanisms known
   Tower details not available
   Year of latest technical information source is 1991

The Dutch Wikipedia article about this building has a photo of it, but does not mention any bells.

Another article about this building has many photos of it, but mentions only one old bell in the roofridge cupola, and says nothing about the contents of the tower.

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/Friesland.

   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