YSSELSTEYN - DO : NETHERLANDS

*Location:

   Duits Oorlogskerkhof
   (German War Cemetery)
   Ysselsteyn,
     Venray, Limburg, Netherlands
   LL: N 51.46962, E 5.89670
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*Contact:

   (unknown)

*Schedule:

   (unknown)

*Remarks:

   Bells hung on 5 steel poles

*Technical data:

   Electric-automatic carillon of 25 bells
   Pitch of heaviest bell is C  in the itty-bitty octave
   Transposition is not applicable
   Keyboard range:     C C   /    NONE  
   There are no missing bass semitones
   The whole instrument was installed in 1960
     with bells made by Eijsbouts   
   No auxiliary mechanisms known
   Tower details: 
     Height of console:                  - meters above ground
     Height of lowest level of bells:    3 meters above ground
     Height of highest level of bells:   4 meters above ground
     Belfry openness:  98%
   Year of latest technical information source is 1976
*Links:

The Dutch Wikipedia article about this cemetery mentions the carillon, which can be seen in Google Streetview.

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

Index to all tower bell instruments in NL/Limburg.

*Status:
   This page was built from the database on 28-May-22
   based on textual data last updated on 2022/05/27
   and on technical data last updated on 1979/03/13
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