*Location:

   Façade de l'Hôtel de Ville
   Rue de Maréchal Foch
     at Place du Général de Gaulle
   Quesnoy-sur-Deule, Nord, France
   LL: N 50.71250, E 3.00109

Site locator map
City locator maps and gazetteer page

*Contact:

   (unknown)

*Schedule:

   Autoplay at quarters, 0800-2000

*Remarks:

   Maker unknown; installed by Ets Paschal
   in Sep.2000

*Technical data:

   Electric-automatic chime of  8 bells
   Pitch of heaviest bell is G  in the treble octave
   Transposition is not applicable
   Keyboard range:     G G   /    ----  
   There are no added semitones
   The whole instrument was installed in 2000
     with bells made by an unknown maker
   No auxiliary mechanisms known
   Tower details not available
   Year of latest technical information source is 2012

The ARPAC page about these bells (archived 2019) has a detailed inventory.

The French Wikipedia article about the town has a photo of the city hall, in which the bells are clearly visible below the clock face.

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/Nord.

   This page was built from the database on 28-Apr-20
   based on textual data last updated on 2020/04/26
   and on technical data last updated on 2020/04/22