PAMIERS - NDC : FRANCE - 09

*Location:

   Nôtre Dame du Camp
   Place du Camp
   Pamiers, Ariège, France
   LL: N 43.11625, E 1.61148
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*Player:

   Christine Vanhoutte
   E: christinelaugie/@/free DOTfr

*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) added to 2 from
   1822; augmented in 1995 with 11 bells
   removed from Cathédrale St-Antonin
   (but which 11 is undiscovered).

*Technical data:

   Traditional chime (baton keyboard) of 21 bells
   Pitch of heaviest bell is unknown
   Transposition is unknown
   Keyboard range:     ----  /    ----  
   The arrangement of tones and semitones is unknown.
   The presence or absence of a practice console 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)
   No auxiliary mechanisms known
   Tower details not available
   Year of latest technical information source is 2010
*Links:

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.

*Status:
   This page was built from the database on  5-Nov-23
   based on textual data last updated on 2020/08/28
   and on technical data last updated on 2010/05/22
*Photos:

(none available)

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