*Location:

   Ned.Herv.Kerk (Oude Kerk)
   Kerklaan at Torenstraat
   Nieuwerkerk a/d IJssel,
     Zuidplas, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands
   LL: N 51.97042, E 4.60489

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*Contact:

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*Schedule:

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*Remarks:

   Now part of the municipality Zuidplas.
   Also an anonymous church bell, 17 c.

*Technical data:

   Electric-automatic carillon of 25 bells
   Pitch of heaviest bell is G  in the treble octave
   Transposition is not applicable
   Keyboard range:     NONE  /    NONE  
   There are two missing bass semitones
   The whole instrument was installed in 1966
     with bells made by Eijsbouts   
   No auxiliary mechanisms known
   Tower details not available
   Year of latest technical information source is 1976

The Dutch Wikipedia article about the town has a photo of the church but says nothing about it.

The Wikimedia Commons category for the church has many photos of it.

Where this work lies in the sequence of output of the Eijsbouts bellfoundry, in this region and in the world.

Ranking among all Netherlands non-traditional carillons by pitch (weight).
Ranking among all Netherlands non-traditional carillons by size (number of bells).
Ranking among all Netherlands non-traditional carillons by year of completion.

Index to all tower bell instruments in NL/Zuid-Holland.

   This page was built from the database on 30-Nov-19
   based on textual data last updated on 2019/11/30
   and on technical data last updated on 1975/07/20