*Location:

   Église de l'Assomption de Notre-Dame
   Rue de Clarisses at Rue de Four Banal
   Molandier, Aude, France
   LL: N 43.24572, E 1.71640

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*Player:

   (unknown)

*Contact:

   (unknown)

*Schedule:

   (unknown)

*Remarks:

   Original bells cast in (or by)
   Pèlegrin-Lévêgrin; added semitone flat
   7th; roller-bar transmission.
   Later electrified, but that was defunct
   by 1990s.

*Technical data:

   Traditional chime (baton keyboard) of 15 bells
   Pitch of heaviest bell is unknown
   Keyboard range:     ----  /    ----  
   Transposition is unknown
   The arrangement of tones and semitones is unknown.
   The presence or absence of a practice console is unknown
   The instrument was enlarged in 2008
     with bells made by Paccard          
   Prior history:
     In 1867, the instrument was begun with 11 bells
       by the maker cited in Remarks above
       Pitch of heaviest bell was A  in the middle octave
       Keyboard range was:     C E   /    NONE  
       Transposition was up  9 semitone(s), i.e., from C to A 
       There was one added semitone
   No auxiliary mechanisms known
   Tower details not available
   Year of latest technical information source is 2023

The French Wikipedia article about the building is a stub, with no useful information (as of Apr.2020).

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Where the initial phase of this work lies in the sequence of output of miscellaneous bellfoundries, in this region and in the world.
Where the final phase 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/Aude.

   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 2024/01/23