*Location:

   Rathausturm
   Am Markt
   Lüneburg, Niedersachsen, Germany
   LL: N 53.25029, E 10.40739

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*Player:

   (unknown)

*Contact:

   Tourist Information Office
   Rathaus
   Am Markt
   D-21335 Lüneburg
   T: 800 220 50 05
   E: touristik/@/lueneburg DOTinfo

*Schedule:

   Autoplay at 8,12,18 during summer

*Remarks:

   Also reported as 42 bells.

*Technical data:

   Carillon-sized instrument or collection of 41 porcelain 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 1956
     with porcelain bells made by Meissen     
   No auxiliary mechanisms known
   Tower details not available
   Year of latest technical information source is 2020

The German Wikipedia article about the building has a photo of it, and mentions the Meissen porcelain carillon.  More photos of the building can be found in the linked Wikimedia Commons category

A page about the glockenspiel has 2 photos, recounts its history and has an audio clip (1:58) with single-note melody followed by 2-part harmony and then 3-part harmony.

Where this work lies in the sequence of output of the Meissen porcelain factory, in this region and in the world.

[Instruments with porcelain bells are not indexed by pitch (weight).]
Ranking among all German non-traditional carillons by size (number of bells).
Ranking among all German non-traditional carillons by year of completion.

Index to all tower bell instruments in Germany/Lower Saxony.

   This page was built from the database on  8-Sep-20
   based on textual data last updated on 2020/08/28
   and on technical data last updated on 1979/08/07