Historic carillon

*Location:

   Lantern E window
   O.L.V.Toren - 'Lange Jan'
   (was Onze Lieve Vrouwe Kerk)
   Krankeledenstraat/Lieve Vrouwekerkhof
   Amersfoort, Utrecht, Netherlands
   LL: N 52.15510, E 5.38728

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NOTE: Google Maps overhead photography may show the tower as truncated, because of photo stitching.
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*Carillonist:

   (unknown)

*Contact:

   The Netherlands Carillon School
   Grote Spui 11
   3811 GA Amersfoort
   T: 033/75.26.38
   F: 033/72.15.30
   E: national.carillonschool@
        muziek.hku.nl

*Schedule:

   (unknown)

*Remarks:

   Body of church destroyed by storm in
   1787; only the tower was restored.
   Mean-tone tuning.
   Apparently reduced to 35 bells on/after
   installation of new carillon (OLV/2),
   with broek system + 17c.-style clavier.
   Belfry holds 7-bell peal by H.M.Rincker
   (Sinn), installed in 2000, so tower
   now contains 100 bells.

*Technical data:

   Traditional carillon of 49 bells
   Pitch of heaviest bell is unknown
   Keyboard range:     G C 42/    C G   
   Transposition is unknown
   There are no missing bass semitones
   The presence or absence of a practice console is unknown
   The instrument was enlarged in unknown year
     with bells made by Eijsbouts    
   Prior history:
     In 1953, the instrument was enlarged to 47 bells
       by Eijsbouts   
       (14 bells were added in and/or remain from that work.)
       Pitch of heaviest bell was C# in the middle octave
       Keyboard range was:     F C   /    C --  
       Transposition was up  8 semitone(s), i.e., from C to G#
       There were two missing bass semitones
     In 1658, the instrument was begun with 33 bells
       by Hemony      
       (30 bells remain from that work.)
       Pitch of heaviest bell (excluding sub-bourdon) was F# in the middle octave
       Keyboard range was: (CDE----  /    ----  
   Auxiliary mechanisms: E     
   Tower details: 
     Height of console:                 55 meters above ground
     Height of lowest level of bells:   55 meters above ground
     Height of highest level of bells:  63 meters above ground
     Belfry openness:  65%
   Year of latest technical information source is 1978

Where the initial phase of this work lies in the sequence of output of the Hemony bellfoundries, in this region and in the world.
Where the second phase of this work lies in the sequence of output of the Eijsbouts bellfoundry, in this region and in the world.
Where the final phase of this work lies in the sequence of output of the Eijsbouts bellfoundry, in this region and in the world.

Ranking among all Netherlands traditional carillons by pitch (weight).
Ranking among all Netherlands traditional carillons by size (number of bells).
Ranking among all Netherlands traditional carillons by year of completion.

Index to all traditional carillons in Netherlands.

Index to all tower bell instruments in NL/Utrecht.

   This page was built from the database on 14-Oct-24
   based on textual data last updated on 2015/08/05
   and on technical data last updated on 1995/06/13