*Location:

   Église Notre-Dame
   Place du Gén.Leclerc
   La Ferté Macé, Orne, France
   LL: N 48.5898, W 0.3568

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*Player:

   Guy Bonvalot
   2 rue de l'ancienne église
   61600 La Ferte Mace
   T: 33 37 31 29

*Contact:

   OTSI
   - or -
   le presbytère

*Schedule:

   After high mass.
   Thursday at 1000 and 1100 in season.

*Remarks:

   Primitive "barrow-handle" clavier.

*Technical data:

   Chime-sized instrument with action described in Remarks above of 16 bells
   Pitch of heaviest bell is unknown
   Keyboard range:     ----  /    ----  
   Transposition is unknown
   The arrangement of tones and semitones is unknown.
   The whole instrument was installed in 1901
     with bells made by Bollée           
   No auxiliary mechanisms known
   Tower details not available
   Year of latest technical information source is 1992

Photos of the building

Where this work lies in the sequence of output of the Bollée 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/Orne.

   This page was built from the database on 29-Dec-24
   based on textual data last updated on 2024/09/18
   and on technical data last updated on 1993/07/25