*Location:

   Old City Hall
   Wilhelminastraat at De Burcht
   Zaandam,
     Zaanstad, Noord-Holland, Netherlands
   LL: N 52.43916, E 4.82715

Site locator map
City locator maps and gazetteer page

*Contact:

   Stichting Klokkenspel Zaanstad
   E: info/@/carillonzaanstad DOTnl

*Schedule:

   Autoplay hourly during the day

*Remarks:

   Village of Zaandam was incorporated
   into municipality of Zaanstad in 1974.
   Added semitones are sharp 4th & its
   octave, flat 7th.  Original electric
   keyboard abandoned.  Expansion to 26
   bells with baton keyboard is planned.

*Technical data:

   Electric-automatic chime of 18 bells
   Pitch of heaviest bell is G  in the treble octave
   Keyboard range:     G G   /    NONE  
   Transposition is not applicable
   There are three added semitones
   The whole instrument was installed in 1993
     with bells made by Petit & Fritsen    
   Auxiliary mechanisms: nI    
   Tower details not available
   Year of latest technical information source is 1993

The home page of the Zaandam Carillon Foundation has a current photo of the building.  Another page has a long history of the building and the village.

The Facebook presence of the SKZ includes photos, some of which were taken inside the current belfry, showing that there is lots of space to add more bells.

Video (1:55) of music before the noon hour strike

Where 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/Noord-Holland.

   This page was built from the database on 10-Mar-26
   based on textual data last updated on 2026/03/04
   and on technical data last updated on 2026/03/04