*Location:

   Église Saint-Jean-Baptiste
   Place de l'Église
   Megève, Haute-Savoie, France
   LL: N 45.85669, E 6.61846

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*Player:

   (unknown)

*Contact:

   (unknown)

*Schedule:

   (unknown)

*Remarks:

   One by brothers Lièvremont, 1783; rest
   by Paccard, 1825 (3), 1886 (2),
   1896 (3), 1924 (1), except 1 anonymous
   in the spire.

*Technical data:

   Traditional chime (baton keyboard) of 10 bells
   Pitch of heaviest bell is A# in the bass octave
   Transposition is unknown
   Keyboard range:     ----  /    ----  
   The arrangement of tones and/or semitones
     is non-standard; see Remarks above.
   The whole instrument was completed in 1924
     with bells made by Paccard (except for 1) in various years
   No auxiliary mechanisms known
   Tower details not available
   Year of latest technical information source is 1992

The French Wikipedia article about the church has a photo of it, plus a detailed section about the 11 bells.

Photos of the building

Where the completion of this work lies in the sequence of output of the Paccard 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/Haute-Savoie.

   This page was built from the database on 28-Apr-20
   based on textual data last updated on 2020/04/26
   and on technical data last updated on 1993/07/29