*Location:

   Église Saint Rémy
   Lagarde-Lauragais,
     Haute-Garonne, France
   LL: N 43.34627, E 1.71291

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*Player:

   Jean-Marc Espitalier

*Contact:

   (unknown)

*Schedule:

   (unknown)

*Remarks:

   5 large bells flywheel by hand (volée
   tournante: G1,A1,B1,D2,E) plus 14
   fixed; 2 diatonic octaves plus four
   semitones; keys present for all
   missing semitones.  2 by Bollée 1987,
   bourdon by Louison 1895

*Technical data:

   Traditional chime (baton keyboard) of 19 bells
   Pitch of heaviest bell is G  in the middle octave
   Keyboard range:     C D 19/    NONE  
   Transposition is up  7 semitone(s), i.e., from C to G 
   There are four added semitones
   The presence or absence of a practice console is unknown
   The whole instrument was installed in 1995
     with bells made by Cornille-Havard  (except for 3)
   Auxiliary mechanisms: W5    
   Tower details: 
     Height of console:                  . meters above ground
     Height of lowest level of bells:    . meters above ground
     Height of highest level of bells:  +4 meters above ground
     Belfry openness:  70%
   Year of latest technical information source is 2024

The French Wikipedia article about the town has two photos of the church and its bell wall.  The frontal photo shows 4 swinging bells, each in its own perforation of the wall; the rear photo shows another swinging bell and several smaller bells hung dead.  But the text does not mention them.

The Association Carillons en Pays d'Oc has a page about this instrument (in French) with specifications of all bells plus a video (12:05) of ringing and playing.

Photos of the building

Where this work lies in the sequence of output of unknown bellfoundries, 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/Haute-Garonne.

   This page was built from the database on 14-Oct-24
   based on textual data last updated on 2024/08/09
   and on technical data last updated on 2024/08/09