Springcarillon

*Location:

   Museum Klok & Peel
   Ostaderstraat near Rootweg
   Asten, Noord-Brabant, Netherlands
   LL: N 51.40289, E 5.73331

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*Player:

   (visitors)

*Contact:

   Museum Klok & Peel
   Ostaderstraat 23
   5721 WC Asten
   T: 0493-691865   F: 0493-697079
   E: info@museumklokenpeel.nl

*Schedule:

   (unknown)

*Remarks:

   Bells operated by stepping on ground-
   level metal plates.  Added semitones
   are sharp 4th & flat 7th in first
   octave.

*Technical data:

   Chime-sized instrument with action described in Remarks above of 15 bells
   Pitch of heaviest bell is C  in the itty-bitty octave
   Transposition is unknown
   Keyboard range:     NONE  /    C A   
   There are two added semitones
   The whole instrument was installed in 2009
     with bells made by Eijsbouts   
   No auxiliary mechanisms known
   Tower details not available
   Year of latest technical information source is 2012

The Website of the Museum (formerly the Nationaal Beiaard- en Natuurmuseum Asten, or National Carillon and Nature Museum Asten) is ostensibly in three languages, though some pages (and some parts of pages) are only in Dutch.  The Carillon Museum (founded in 1969) merged with the Natural History Museum (founded in 1975) effective 1 Jan 2007.  The home page sometimes includes a photo of children at a 20-note baton keyboard.  Scroll down for an outdoors photo of the bells of the Springcarillon; in the background can be seen the green (oxidized copper) tower which holds an automatic carillon, as well as the peaked roof under which two chimes hang indoors.  Once upon a time there was a page about the Springcarillon, but it seems o have been lost in a redesign of the Website.

Where this work lies in the sequence of output of the Eijsbouts bellfoundry, in this region and in the world.

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

Index to all tower bell instruments in NL/Noord-Brabant, including the other five at this museum.

   This page was built from the database on  4-Jan-21
   based on textual data last updated on 2021/01/04
   and on technical data last updated on 2012/02/18