*Location:

   Bakkerij Voncken
   (was Bakkerij van Eeghem)
   Kerkstraat between Schiffelerstraat
     and Wilhelminastraat
   Brunssum, Limburg, Netherlands
   LL: N 50.94641, E 5.97171

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*Contact:

   Bakkerij Voncken
   Kerkstraat 61-A
   6441 BB Brunssum
   T: 045 525 23 63
   E: info@bakkerijvoncken.nl

*Schedule:

   (unknown)

*Remarks:

   The van Eeghem bakery was acquired by
   Voncken in 2008.

*Technical data:

   Electric-automatic carillon of 25 bells
   Pitch of heaviest bell is unknown
   Transposition is not applicable
   Keyboard range:     ----  /    ----  
   The arrangement of tones and semitones is unknown.
   The whole instrument was installed in 1980
     with bells made by an unknown maker
   No auxiliary mechanisms known
   Tower details: 
     Height of console:                 (unknown)
     Height of lowest level of bells:   (unknown)
     Height of highest level of bells:  (unknown)
     Belfry openness:  99%
   Year of latest technical information source is 2015

Photo and brief description

A page about the branches of the Voncken bakery has a small photo of the building (find "Brunssum" in the page).

Where this work lies in the sequence of output of unknown bellfoundries, in this region and in the world.

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

Index to all tower bell instruments in NL/Limburg.

   This page was built from the database on 14-Oct-15
   based on textual data last updated on 2015/10/10
   and on technical data last updated on 2015/10/10