*Location:

   City carillon De Nijenburgh
   (Gemeente)
   Herenweg at Nyenburgh
   Oudorp, Noord-Holland, Netherlands
   LL: N 52.63681, E 4.77544

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*Contact:

   (unknown)

*Schedule:

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*Remarks:

   Oudorp was merged into Alkmaar in 1972.

*Technical data:

   Electric-automatic carillon of 23 bells
   Pitch of heaviest bell is C  in the itty-bitty octave
   Transposition is not applicable
   Keyboard range:     C C   /    NONE  
   There are two missing bass semitones
   The whole instrument was installed in 1972
     with bells made by Petit & Fritsen
   No auxiliary mechanisms known
   Tower details not available
   Year of latest technical information source is 1974

Video (1:11) of this carillon, with closeups of some bells

Video (2:27) showing location of tower at corner of a large grassy area; includes Christian Winter talking about it

Photo of the carillon tower

Photo of the bells

Where this work lies in the sequence of output of the Petit & Fritsen bellfoundry, 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/Noord-Holland.

   This page was built from the database on 30-Nov-19
   based on textual data last updated on 2019/11/01
   and on technical data last updated on 1975/07/20