ESQUELBECQ : FRANCE - 59

*Location:

   Église Saint-Folquin
   Place Alphonse Bergerot
   Esquelbecq, Nord, France
   LL: N 50.88621, E 2.43168
Site locator map
City locator maps and gazetteer page

*Player:

   (unknown)

*Contact:

   (unknown)

*Schedule:

   Autoplay at the hour and half hour,
   0800-2000

*Remarks:

   Also 4 large swingers, same foundry
   and year.

*Technical data:

   Electric-keyboard chime of 19 bells
   Pitch of heaviest bell is D  in the treble octave
   Transposition is up one octave
   Keyboard range:     D G#  /    ----  
   There are no missing bass semitones
   The whole instrument was installed in 1977
     with bells made by Cornille-Havard 
   Auxiliary mechanisms: E     
   Tower details not available
   Year of latest technical information source is 2012
*Links:

The ARPAC page about these bells has a detailed inventory.

The French Wikipedia article about the building has photos of it, and mentions the number of bells in the tower but without details.

Where this work lies in the sequence of output of the Cornille-Havard bellfoundry, in this region and in the world.

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/Nord.

*Status:
   This page was built from the database on 11-May-20
   based on textual data last updated on 2020/04/22
   and on technical data last updated on 2020/05/07
*Photos:

(none available)

Explanations of page format and keyboard range are available.

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