*Location:

   Horlogerie van Manen - facade
   Hoogstraat at Brouwersgracht
   Veenendaal, Utrecht, Netherlands
   LL: N 52.02861, E 5.55902

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*Contact:

   Horlogerie van Manen
   Hoogstraat 28
   3901 CG  Veenendaal
   T: 0318 51 25 21
   E: info/@/horlogerievanmanen DOTnl

*Schedule:

   (unknown)

*Remarks:

   Glockenspiel with parade of 4 figures

*Technical data:

   Electric-automatic chime of 14 bells
   Pitch of heaviest bell is unknown
   Transposition is not applicable
   Keyboard range:     ----  /    ----  
   The arrangement of tones and semitones is unknown.
   The instrument was enlarged in 199_
     with bells made by an unknown maker
   Prior history:
     Previously, the instrument was begun with 10 bells
       made by Petit & Fritsen
   No auxiliary mechanisms known
   Tower details: 
     Height of console:                 (unknown)
     Height of lowest level of bells:   (unknown)
     Height of highest level of bells:  (unknown)
     Belfry openness:  99%
   Year of latest technical information source is 2018

Photo of the building; the bells are on the corner, not in the clock tower.

The shop Website has a photo of the building, in which the bells are clearly visible.
The page "Over Ons" (About Us) has more photos of the bells and tower (unfortunately not clickable for larger versions).
A parade of four figures at the hour qualifies this as a glockenspiel in our terminology.

Neither the Dutch Wikipedia article about the city nor the city's own Website says anything about these bells.

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

Index to all tower bell instruments in NL/Utrecht.

   This page was built from the database on  5-Nov-23
   based on textual data last updated on 2020/04/11
   and on technical data last updated on 2019/04/20