WESTMAAS : NETHERLANDS

*Location:

   N.H.Kerktoren (Dorpskerk)
   Breestraat
   Westmaas, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands
   LL: N 51.78799, E 4.47382
Site locator map
City locator maps and gazetteer page

*Contact:

   (unknown)

*Schedule:

   (unknown)

*Technical data:

   Electric-automatic chime of 20 bells
   Pitch of heaviest bell is C  in the treble octave
   Transposition is not applicable
   Keyboard range:     ----  /    ----  
   The arrangement of tones and semitones is unknown.
   The whole instrument was installed in 1968
     with bells made by Eijsbouts   
   No auxiliary mechanisms known
   Tower details not available
   Year of latest technical information source is 1991
*Links:

The Reliwiki page about this church describes two old church bells but not this chime.  There are current and historic photos of the building.

Photo of the church

The English Wikipedia article about the town reports that it has been part of Binnenmaas since 1984.

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/Zuid-Holland.

*Status:
   This page was built from the database on 27-Mar-21
   based on textual data last updated on 2021/03/26
   and on technical data last updated on 1992/07/07
*Photos:

(none available)

Explanations of page format and keyboard range are available.

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