HEESCH : NETHERLANDS

*Location:

   Petrus-Emmauskerk
   (was Sint-Petrus'-Bandenkerk)
   Het Dorp at Kerkstraat
   Heesch, Noord-Brabant, Netherlands
   LL: N 51.73324, E 5.52053
Site locator map
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*Contact:

   (unknown)

*Schedule:

   (unknown)

*Remarks:

   Church name changed in 1995.

*Technical data:

   Electric-automatic chime of 18 bells
   Pitch of heaviest bell is C  in the itty-bitty octave
   Transposition is not applicable
   Keyboard range:     ----  /    ----  
   The arrangement of tones and semitones is unknown.
   The whole instrument was installed in 1982
     with bells made by Eijsbouts   
   No auxiliary mechanisms known
   Tower details not available
   Year of latest technical information source is 1991
*Links:

The Dutch Wikipedia article about the church has a photo of it, and recounts its history, but does not mention the current bells.  There is another photo, with a better view of the tower, in the linked Wikimedia Commons category.

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.

*Status:
   This page was built from the database on 27-Mar-21
   based on textual data last updated on 2021/03/26
   and on technical data last updated on 1992/07/07
*Photos:

(none available)

Explanations of page format and keyboard range are available.

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