Notre Dame's biggest new bell is Dutch

[PA5COR]

http://www.dutchnews.nl/news/archives/2012/02/notre_dames_biggest_new_bell_i.php
Dutch company Koninklijke Eijsbouts has been commissioned to make a massive new bell for the Notre Dame cathedral in Paris.
The new bell, named Marie, will weigh 6,000 kilos and will have a diameter of 1.6 metres. Marie is a sister bell to the south tower's Emmanuel, cast in 1686 but now too frail to be used apart from on special occasions, according to the Independent (http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/the-bells-the-bells-why-notre-dame-is-ringing-the-changes-7440657.html).
'In total, there will be nine new bells and we are making the largest one,' deputy director Joep van Brussel is quoted as saying. The new bells will be placed in Notre Dame next year for the cathedral's 850th anniversary celebrations.
According to the BBC (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-17125549), the new bells will sound much more like the original medieval bells than those currently in use.

( Never knw we made that chit too...;))

[KK4AMI]

Oh ya! You guys just can't keep your bells to yourself :)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netherlands_Carillon

[PA5COR]

Damned Dutch giving all that stuff away, no wonder we never get nice things... ;)
But in that case, you're welcome and deserved as well.

[NQ6U]

Damned Dutch giving all that stuff away, no wonder we never get nice things... ;)
But in that case, you're welcome and deserved as well.

Wait, we save your asses from the Nazis and the in return you give us some freakin' bells?? Man, no wonder you guys have a reputation for being shrewd businessmen... ;)

[kf0rt]

I've seen this guy play the carillon before (amazing). He has Dutch bells, too:

http://www.castinbronze.com/?page_id=2

[PA5COR]

We had to come up with something new, beads and mirrors didn't work anymore as with the injuns we bought the country from there ;)


Wait, we save your asses from the Nazis and the in return you give us some freakin' bells?? Man, no wonder you guys have a reputation for being shrewd businessmen... ;)

[W3WN]

The only remaining problem is transporting the bell to the cathedral. Just some logistics to work out.

I hear that they're asking right now "how do you solve a problem like Marie?", ah, or something like that.

[KK4AMI]

The only remaining problem is transporting the bell to the cathedral. Just some logistics to work out.

I hear that they're asking right now "how do you solve a problem like Marie?", ah, or something like that.

That pun was Nun too good!

[n2ize]

We had to come up with something new, beads and mirrors didn't work anymore as with the injuns we bought the country from there ;)

It's time we give this country back to those Injuns. I would gladly leave the country if they would give it back to its rightful owners. I should be living somewhere in Europe where I rightfully belong. Not in a stolen country.

[W3WN]

That pun was Nun too good!Sorry. Unfortunately, I have a habit of doing that.

[PA5COR]

Keep doing it, then we have something to laugh at ;)

[W3WN]

Keep doing it, then we have something to laugh at ;)
What can I say? It's my cross to bear.

[kb2vxa]

I hate to be the one to pin your coax there Quasimodo but the Cathedral of Notre Dame is in PARIS. (;->)

[PA5COR]

Dutch company Koninklijke Eijsbouts has been commissioned to make a massive new bell for the Notre Dame cathedral in Paris
As was in my original post ;)

[W2NAP]

when you say Notre Dame most Americans think about Notre Dame University in northern Indiana

[PA5COR]

I always think in the original, since they are here ;)
Saw it once trying to kamikaze my van through the Paris traffic in rush hour, never to be repeated again.....:roll::shifty::quiet: