Tubular bells / orchestral chimes & plate bells – the bell rental in Germany

For all plate bells and tubular bells in our instrument rental, we have paid particular attention to the high sound quality and exact tuning. This means you can hire a large selection of professional plate bells and tubular bells from us, which are ideal for use at rehearsals, concerts, orchestra tours and events of all kinds.

The tubular bells in our instrument rental

We rent complete sets of professional tubular bells / orchestral chimes and single tubular bells made by ADAMS, DEAGAN, KOLBERG, MUSSER, also historical tubular bells made by LUDWIG&LUDWIG in the USA and SPRINZ made in Germany.

You can hire sets of tubular bells with a range of 1.5 octaves (C5 – F6), 1.6 octaves (C5 – G6) and even 2 octaves (F4 – F6) and bass tubular bell sets (F4 – B4). We also rent single tubular bells and single bass tubular bells as a special assembled set.

An important note on the notation of tubular bells

The sound of tubular bells is usually one octave higher than written. E.g.: For a tubular bell set of 2-octaves (F4 – F6), the range is indicated in the score as F3 – F5, i.e., an octave lower. Karl Peinkofer, former percussionist of the Bavarian State Opera states this in his “Handbook of Percussion” (2nd edition 1981, p. 75): “The definition ‘sound as written’ refers to the reverberation tone, because the octave above dominates in the sound mixture of the attack.”

Accessories for tubular bells / orchestral chimes for rent

• Stands for tubular bells KOLBERG for up to 7 tubular bells, inc. damping pedal
• Stands for tubular bells KOLBERG, for single tubular bells, also with hand damper
• Stands for tubular bells KOLBERG for up to 7 tubular bells of the bass section, inc. damping pedal
• Hammers for tubular bells made by KOLBERG, PREISSLER, ADAMS, MUSSER in different sizes and with different weights

Plate bell rental – handmade plate bells in best quality

We rent plate bells from KOLBERG and PREISSLER with the best sound quality, handcrafted from superior quality bell-brass. Available range: 3 octaves from C2 – C5. Our plate bells are clearly tuned to A4 = 443 hz.

These plate bells can also be used as an authentic imitation of casted church bells in compositions like “Parsifal” by Richard Wagner, “The Troubadour” by Giuseppe Verdi, or “Symphonie Fantastique” by Hector Berlioz and many others.

Accessories for plate bells

• Custom-made heavy-duty stands of stainless steel especially for plate bells.
• Special KOLBERG plate bell hammers with bronze cores. These plate bell hammers are essential if you want to use the sound of the instruments in all its nuances and are expressly recommended by us.

Tubular bells and plate bells for concert tour to Germany and Europe

Our single tubular bells, our complete tubular bell sets and all of our plate bells are packed in professional customized Preissler flight cases. They can be used – like all our rental instruments – not only for concerts in Berlin and the surrounding countryside of Brandenburg but as well as for entire a concert tour / orchestra travel by truck transport or air cargo within Germany and Europe. No matter if Hamburg, Munich, Frankfurt, or Prague, Paris, Barcelona and Amsterdam. Under certain circumstances we also rent world wide. Some of the tubular bell sets are fragmented because of their heavy weights.