*Location:

   église Saint-Jean-Baptiste de Rencurel
   Becha at Rue du Collet
   Rencurel, Isère, France
   LL: N 45.10236, E 5.47373

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*Contact:

   Association Eglise Pierre VIGNE
   379 chemin de La Lauze
   38680 Rencurel
   T: 04 76 38 97 48   F: 14 76 38 98 61

*Schedule:

   Quarter tunes on 3 bells, hour strike
   on 1887 bass

*Remarks:

   Two basses swing; added semitone is
   minor third.
   "Mechelen-type" baton keyboard,
   installed 1925, is not playable;
   awaiting restoration of building
   (closed; problems with structure).

*Technical data:

   Electric-automatic chime of  8 bells
   Pitch of heaviest bell (excluding sub-bourdon) is B  in the middle octave
   Transposition is not applicable
   Keyboard range: EG#)B F#  /    NONE  
   There is one added semitone
   The whole instrument was installed in 1938
     with bells made by unknown       (except for 2)
   Auxiliary mechanisms: S2Q3Hn
   Tower details not available
   Year of latest technical information source is 2023

There is a GCF page about activities related to this chime.

The French Wikipedia article about the town has a photo of the church and a short paragraph about the bells.

The Website of the Association gives the history of the church of the person for whom the Association is named.  There is a mention of the bells.

Photos of the building

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/Isère.

   This page was built from the database on  4-Apr-24
   based on textual data last updated on 2024/03/30
   and on technical data last updated on 2024/01/23