*Location:

   Beffroi communal
   Rue de la République
     at Rue Louis Ployart
   Saint-Pol-sur-Mer, Nord, France
   LL: N 51.02855, E 2.35184

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*Contact:

   (unknown)

*Schedule:

   (unknown)

*Remarks:

   Inaugurated Oct.2003.
   Added semitones sharp 4 & flat 7th

*Technical data:

   Electric-automatic chime of 13 bells
   Pitch of heaviest bell is C  in the itty-bitty octave
   Transposition is not applicable
   Keyboard range:     C F   /    NONE  
   There are two added semitones
   The whole instrument was installed in 2002
     with bells made by Paccard      
   No auxiliary mechanisms known
   Tower details not available
   Year of latest technical information source is 2006

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

The French Wikipedia article about the town has a photo of the Beffroi, and says that it has one of the four largest jacquemarts [glockenspiels] in the world.  Unfortunately it provides no details.

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/Nord.

   This page was built from the database on  8-Sep-24
   based on textual data last updated on 2024/09/07
   and on technical data last updated on 2024/09/07