*Location:

   President Kennedyplein
   Beverwijk, Noord-Holland, Netherlands
   LL: N 52.4966, E 4.6632

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*Contact:

   Cafe Carillon
   President Kennedyplein 5
   NL-1945 SG Beverwijk
   T: 0251-234354   F: 0251-253398

*Schedule:

   (unknown)

*Remarks:

   Tower and bells may have been removed
   in conjunction with demolition of old
   city hall in 2013.

*Technical data:

   Electric-automatic chime of 18 bells
   Pitch of heaviest bell is D# in the treble octave
   Transposition is not applicable
   Keyboard range:     ----  /    ----  
   The arrangement of tones and semitones is unknown.
   The whole instrument was installed in 1965
     with bells made by Eijsbouts   
   No auxiliary mechanisms known
   Tower details not available
   Year of latest technical information source is 1991

The Website of the cafe has a small photo of the carillon on its splash page and on other pages.  The home page has a long history of the cafe, but does not explain the name.  Many of the pages now include links to online casinos or other unrelated things.

Photo of the bell tower

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 Holland.

   This page was built from the database on 19-Mar-21
   based on textual data last updated on 2021/03/19
   and on technical data last updated on 1992/07/07