*Location:

   Vålerenga kirke
   Hjaltlandsgate 3
   Oslo, Norway
   LL: N 59.90673, E 10.78756

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*Player:

   (unknown)

*Contact:

   Kontoret
   Grønlandsleiret 31
   0190 Oslo
   T: 23 62 91 60   F: 23 62 91 61
   E: post.valerengen/@/oslo.kirken.no

*Schedule:

   (unknown)

*Remarks:

   (none)

   c2, 780mm, 280kg, 1984, Olsen

*Technical data:

   Electric-keyboard chime of 12 bells
   Pitch of heaviest bell is C  in the treble octave
   Keyboard range:     ----  /    ----  
   Transposition is unknown
   The arrangement of tones and semitones is unknown.
   The whole instrument was installed in 1984
     with bells made by Olsen            
   No auxiliary mechanisms known
   Tower details not available
   Year of latest technical information source is 1992

A Vålerengen kirke page has a small photo of the building (clickable for large version).

The Norwegian Wikipedia article about the building has several photos that show the tower, and mentions these bells very briefly.  The associated Wikimedia Commons category has many more photos of the building.

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 2024/12/09
   and on technical data last updated on 1992/05/07