VIRTON : BELGIUM

*Location:

   Église Saint-Laurent
   Place Nestor Outer
   Virton, Luxembourg, Belgium
   LL: N 49.56725, E 5.53192
Site locator map
City locator maps and gazetteer page

*Player:

   (unknown)

*Contact:

   (unknown)

*Schedule:

   (unknown)

*Remarks:

   Also reported as 10 bells by Eijsbouts,
   in Église St-Mard

*Technical data:

   Chime-sized instrument or collection of 11 bells
   Pitch of heaviest bell is unknown
   Transposition is unknown
   Keyboard range:     ----  /    ----  
   The arrangement of tones and semitones is unknown.
   The whole instrument was installed in 2014
     with bells made by an unknown maker
   No auxiliary mechanisms known
   Tower details not available
   Year of latest technical information source is 2022
*Links:

The French Wikipedia article about the church has a photo of it, and mentions the acquisition of 11 bells in 2014.

A virtual museum page (in French) has many historic photos of the building.

Where this work lies in the sequence of output of unknown bellfoundries, 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 tower bell instruments in BE/Luxembourg.

*Status:
   This page was built from the database on 26-Jul-22
   based on textual data last updated on 2022/07/26
   and on technical data last updated on 2022/07/25
*Photos:

(none available)

Explanations of page format and keyboard range are available.

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