CASSEL : FRANCE - 59

*Location:

   Collégiale Notre-Dame-de-la-Crypte
   Rue Notre Dame
   Cassel, Nord, France
   LL: N 50.79925, E 2.48847
Site locator map
City locator maps and gazetteer page

*Contact:

   (unknown)

*Schedule:

   (unknown)

*Remarks:

   3 bells by G. & J. Heuwin, 1592; 2 by
   A. Bernard, 1720; 1 anonymous;
   2 by A.Paccard, 1950.

*Technical data:

   Mechanical-automatic chime of  8 bells
   Pitch of heaviest bell is D  in the treble octave
   Transposition is not applicable
   Keyboard range:     ----  /    ----  
   The arrangement of tones and/or semitones
     is non-standard; see Remarks above.
   The whole instrument was completed in 1950
     by the maker cited in Remarks above
   No auxiliary mechanisms known
   Tower details not available
   Year of latest technical information source is 2012
*Links:

The ARPAC page about these bells (archived 2019) has a detailed inventory.

The French Wikipedia article about the building has a photo of it, but says nothing about any bells.

Photos of the building

This chime having no principal maker, it is not indexed by foundry.

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

Index to all tower bell instruments in France/Haute-Garonne.

*Status:
   This page was built from the database on 27-Apr-20
   based on textual data last updated on 2020/04/22
   and on technical data last updated on 2020/04/22
*Photos:

(none available)

Explanations of page format and keyboard range are available.

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