*Location:

   Fossum kirke
   Stovner Senter
   Fossum,
     Oslo, Norway
   LL: N 59.96257, E 10.92515

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*Player:

   (unknown)

*Contact:

   Fossum kirke
   Stovner Senter 12
   0985 Oslo

*Schedule:

   (unknown)

*Remarks:

   Two largest bells also swing.

   g3, 540mm, 95kg, 1976, Olsen

*Technical data:

   Electric-keyboard chime of 12 bells
   Pitch of heaviest bell is G  in the treble octave
   Keyboard range:     ----  /    ----  
   Transposition is unknown
   The arrangement of tones and semitones is unknown.
   The whole instrument was installed in 1976
     with bells made by Olsen            
   Auxiliary mechanisms: S2    
   Tower details: 
     Height of console:                  - meters above ground
     Height of lowest level of bells:    8 meters above ground
     Height of highest level of bells:  11 meters above ground
     Belfry openness:  50%
   Year of latest technical information source is 1992

The Norwegian Wikipedia article about the building has a short sentence about the bells, but its photo of the church does not show the tower.

A photo from Wikimedia Commons shows the bell tower.

A text page about the church gives the inscription on the largest bell.

Another page about the church has contact information and a gallery of photos, two of which show the tower.

Where this work lies in the sequence of output of the Olsen Nauen bellfoundry, in this region and in the world.

Ranking among all Scandinavian chimes by pitch (weight).
Ranking among all Scandinavian chimes by size (number of bells).
Ranking among all Scandinavian chimes by year of completion.

Index to all tower bell instruments in Norway.

   This page was built from the database on 29-Dec-24
   based on textual data last updated on 2024/12/08
   and on technical data last updated on 2024/12/08