DENDERMONDE - H : BELGIUM

*Location:

   Sint-Egidiustoren
   Église Saint-Gilles
   (Sint-Gillis-Binnenkerk)
   Heldenplein
   Dendermonde (Termonde),
     Oost-Vlaanderen, Belgium
   LL: N 51.02737, E 4.10086
Site locator map
City locator maps and gazetteer page

*Contact:

   (unknown)

*Schedule:

   (unknown)

*Remarks:

   Racked beside swinging bells;
   contains 9 second-hand P&F bells
   (origin unknown)

*Technical data:

   Electric-automatic chime of 15 bells
   Pitch of heaviest bell is D  in the itty-bitty octave
   Transposition is not applicable
   Keyboard range:     ----  /    ----  
   The arrangement of tones and semitones is unknown.
   The whole instrument was installed in 2018
     with bells made by Eijsbouts    (except for 9)
   No auxiliary mechanisms known
   Tower details not available
   Year of latest technical information source is 2020
*Links:

A peace carillon page has photos and additional information.

The Dutch Wikipedia article about the church has photos of the building but does not mention these bells.

The second-hand bells from Petit & Fritsen are not indexed.
Where this work lies in the sequence of output of the Eijsbouts bellfoundry, in this region and in the world.

Ranking among all Belgian chimes by size (number of bells).
Ranking among all Belgian chimes by pitch of largest bell.
Ranking among all Belgian chimes by year of completion.

Index to all peace instruments worldwide.

Index to all tower bell instruments in BE/Oost-Vlaanderen.

*Status:
   This page was built from the database on  8-Mar-20
   based on textual data last updated on 2020/03/07
   and on technical data last updated on 2020/03/07
*Photos:

(none available)

Explanations of page format and keyboard range are available.

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