FOSSES-LA-VILLE : BELGIUM

*Location:

   Collégiale Saint-Feuillen
   Rue du Chapître
   Fosses-la-Ville, Namur, Belgium
   LL: N 50.39697, E 4.69721
Site locator map
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*Player:

   (unknown)

*Contact:

   (unknown)

*Schedule:

   Autoplay of a tune at the hour and
   half-hour

*Remarks:

   Donated by Mme.Delmotte-Lemaître.
   Also 4 swinging bells (oldest now fixed).
   Keyboard has dropped keys for missing
   bass C#,D# and treble F#.  Autoplay
   via weight-driven drum and electric
   action.

*Technical data:

   Traditional chime (baton keyboard) of 19 bells
   Pitch of heaviest bell is unknown
   Transposition is unknown
   Keyboard range:     C A 22/    NONE  
   The arrangement of tones and/or semitones
     is non-standard; see Remarks above.
   The presence or absence of a practice console is unknown
   The whole instrument was installed in 1934
     with bells made by Michiels    
   Auxiliary mechanisms: E     
   Tower details not available
   Year of latest technical information source is 2021
*Links:

The French Wikipedia article about the church has one photo of it, and a short paragraph about these bells.

Detailed 4-page article (in French), profusely illustrated, about all the bells, though the weight or pitch of the carillon's bass bell is not given.

Where this work lies in the sequence of output of the Michiels bellfoundry, in this region and in the world.

Ranking among all Belgian chimes by size (number of bells).
Ranking among all Belgian chimes by pitch of largest bell.
Ranking among all Belgian chimes by year of completion.

Index to all tower bell instruments in BE/Namur.

*Status:
   This page was built from the database on 26-Jul-22
   based on textual data last updated on 2022/07/26
   and on technical data last updated on 2022/07/22
*Photos:

(none available)

Explanations of page format and keyboard range are available.

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