*Location:

   Église Notre-Dame de l'Espinasse
   Place de Maréchal Foch
   Millau, Aveyron, France
   LL: N 44.09806, E 3.08128

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*Player:

   (unknown)

*Contact:

   (unknown)

*Schedule:

   (unknown)

*Remarks:

   Bells by Pourcel.
   Added semitone is flat 7th.
   At least two bells also swing.

*Technical data:

   Electric-keyboard chime of 10 bells
   Pitch of heaviest bell is C  in the middle octave
   Keyboard range:     C D   /    NONE  
   Transposition is nil (concert pitch)
   There is one added semitone
   The whole instrument was installed in 1880
     with bells made by the maker cited in Remarks above
   Auxiliary mechanisms: S2    
   Tower details not available
   Year of latest technical information source is 2024

The French Wikipedia article about the church has two photos showing the surviving bell tower, but does not mention any bells.

The Association Carillons en Pays d'Oc has a page about this instrument (in French).

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/Aveyron.

   This page was built from the database on 29-Dec-24
   based on textual data last updated on 2024/09/03
   and on technical data last updated on 2024/09/13