Carillon de Morzine
   L'Ars Sonora "Flamme"

*Location:

   Place de l'Office du Tourisme
   Morzine, Haute-Savoie, France
   LL: N 46.18139, E 6.70376

Site locator map
City locator maps and gazetteer page

*Contact:

   Mairie de Morzine-Avoriaz
   1 Place de l'Église
   74110 Morzine
   T: 04 50 79 04 03
   E: mairie@morzine.fr
      mairie.morzine@morzine.fr
      communication@morzine.fr
   - or -
   Office du Tourisme de Morzine
   26 place du Baraty
   74110 Morzine
   T: 04 50 74 72 72
   E: info/@/morzine-avoriaz DOTcom

*Schedule:

   Autoplay hourly, 0900-1800, with a
   different melody each hour.

*Remarks:

   Bells cast on site in July 2013;
   all engraved with donor names.

*Technical data:

   Electric-automatic chime of 19 bells
   Pitch of heaviest bell is unknown
   Keyboard range:     ----  /    ----  
   Transposition is not applicable
   The arrangement of tones and semitones is unknown.
   The whole instrument was installed in 2013
     with bells made by Paccard          
   No auxiliary mechanisms known
   Tower details not available
   Year of latest technical information source is 2024

The Paccard page about this project has photos and some details.

YouTube videos:  #1 (4:59),  #2 (6:19),  #3 (3:56)

A waymarking page has three photos.

The French Wikipedia article about the town makes no mention of this installation, nor does the associated Wikimedia Commons category.

Where 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 29-Dec-24
   based on textual data last updated on 2024/12/22
   and on technical data last updated on 2024/12/22