*Location:

   Former city hall
   Vechtkade at Brugstraat
   Ommen, Overijssel, Netherlands
   LL: N 52.51772, E 6.42212

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*Contact:

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*Schedule:

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*Remarks:

   Built 1827, enlarged 1960, superseded
   in 1982.

*Technical data:

   Electric-automatic carillon of 28 bells
   Pitch of heaviest bell is C  in the itty-bitty octave
   Transposition is not applicable
   Keyboard range:     NONE  /    NONE  
   There is one missing bass semitone
   The whole instrument was installed in 1956
     with bells made by vanBergen   
   No auxiliary mechanisms known
   Tower details not available
   Year of latest technical information source is 1976

Wikimedia Commons has a category for the old city hall; the bells in the roofridge cupola are visible in several of the photos.

Where this work lies in the sequence of output of the vanBergen bellfoundries, 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/Overijssel.

   This page was built from the database on 28-Oct-19
   based on textual data last updated on 2019/09/29
   and on technical data last updated on 1975/07/20