*Location:

   South balcony (indoors)
   Museum Speelklok
   (was Buurkerk)
   between Steenweg and Buurkerkhof
   Utrecht, Utrecht, Netherlands
   LL: N 52.09053, E 5.11934

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*Player:

   Museum staff

*Contact:

   Museum Speelklok
   Steenweg 6
   3511 JP  Utrecht
   T: 030/231 27 89
   E: info/@/museumspeelklok DOTnl

*Schedule:

   For occasional demonstrations

*Remarks:

   Added semitones are sharp 4th, flat 7th
   and sharp octave; keyboard has dummy
   keys for C#,D#,G#,D# (but not top F#).
   Drum has 16 tracks but plays only 11
   bells, as 7 have double hammers.
   Sub-bourdon is hour bell for the tower
   clock in the same frame, but is not
   played from the drum.  P&F supplied
   sub-bourdon and 5 trebles.
   Admission charged.
   Former church bells (details unknown)
   remain in tower, and are rung
   occasionally by UKG.

*Technical data:

   Traditional chime (baton keyboard) of 18 bells
   Pitch of heaviest bell (excluding sub-bourdon) is unknown
   Transposition is unknown
   Keyboard range: (G )C A   /    NONE  
   There are three added semitones
   The presence or absence of a practice console is unknown
   The instrument was enlarged in unknown year
     with bells made by Petit & Fritsen 
   Prior history:
     Previously, the instrument was begun with 12 bells
       by an unknown maker
       Keyboard range was:     C A   /    NONE  
       There were two added semitones
   Auxiliary mechanisms: M     
   Tower details: 
     Height of console:                  6 meters above ground
     Height of lowest level of bells:   10 meters above ground
     Height of highest level of bells:  11 meters above ground
     Belfry openness:    N/A
   Year of latest technical information source is 2023

Where the initial phase of this work lies in the sequence of output of unknown bellfoundries, in this region and in the world.
Where the final phase of this work lies in the sequence of output of the Petit & Fritsen 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/Utrecht.

   This page was built from the database on 24-Oct-23
   based on textual data last updated on 2023/10/22
   and on technical data last updated on 2023/10/22