*Location:

   North tower
   Église Notre-Dame du Camp
   Place du Camp
   Pamiers, Ariège, France
   LL: N 43.11625, E 1.61148

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*Player:

   Christine Vanhoutte
   E: christinevanhoutte@free.fr

*Contact:

   Orgues et Carillons de Pamiers
   18, rue de Rempart des Carmes
   09100 Pamiers
   T: 05.61.67.86.51

*Schedule:

   (unknown)

*Remarks:

   10 by Vinel (Toulouse) include 2 from
   1822; augmented in 1995 with 11 bells
   removed from Cathédrale Saint-Antonin
   (but which 11 is undiscovered).
   Original 9-note chimestand modified by
   addition of 1 lever at left and
   11-note extension at right; semitone
   keys shaped like carillon pedals.
   Unplayable because of pigeon debris.

*Technical data:

   Chime-sized instrument (without any workable playing mechanism) of 21 bells
   Pitch of heaviest bell is unknown
   Transposition is unknown
   Keyboard range:     ----  /    ----  
   The arrangement of tones and semitones is unknown.
   The instrument was enlarged in 1995
     by the maker cited in Remarks above
   Prior history:
     In 1896, the instrument was begun with 10 bells
       by the maker cited in Remarks above (except for 2)
   Auxiliary mechanisms: nC    
   Tower details not available
   Year of latest technical information source is 2010

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

Photos of the building

A blog about these bells has not been updated since 2019.

Two photos of the bells, accompanied by a brief history of them (in French)

Where the initial phase of this work lies in the sequence of output of miscellaneous bellfoundries, in this region and in the world.
The final phase of this work having been transferred from another instrument, it is indexed by foundry there.

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/Ariège.

   This page was built from the database on  8-Sep-24
   based on textual data last updated on 2024/09/06
   and on technical data last updated on 2010/05/22