*Location:

   Église Saint-Jean-Baptiste de Taninges
   Rue de la Poste (D907)
     at Avenue de Thezieres (D902)
     (town center)
   Taninges, Haute-Savoie, France
   LL: N 46.10715, E 6.59180

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*Carillonist:

   Antoine Cordoba
   E: cordoba.ant74@gmail.com

   Jean-Bernard Lemoine
   ~2009  Anne Abel
   ~1995-~2009  Monique Larnac
   ~1995  Marius Cachat

*Contact:

   Association du Carillon de Taninges
   E: carillondetaninges/@/wanadoo DOTfr

*Schedule:

   Wednesdays in July and early August.

*Remarks:

   Original keyboard included space for
   30 bells, with 12 pedals.
   Restored in 1986.  Expansion of 1989
   included 5 new bells plus a recycled
   bell cast in 1767.
   Practice keyboard acquired in 1996.
   Expansion in 2005 included 3 basses
   and 7 trebles.
   Keyboard built for 4.5 octaves, but
   photo before last expansion showed
   empty space for 7 trebles, and 9
   bass keys plus 3 semitones (F#,G#,C#)
   were dropped.
   Tower also contains 3 swinging bells.

*Technical data:

   Traditional carillon of 44 bells
   Pitch of heaviest bell is unknown
   Keyboard range:     ----  /    ----  
   Transposition is unknown
   The arrangement of tones and semitones is unknown.
   There is a practice console
   The instrument was enlarged in 2018
     with bells made by an unknown maker 
   Prior history:
     In 2005, the instrument was enlarged to 40 bells
       by Eijsbouts       
       Keyboard range was:     G C   /    G C   
       The arrangement of tones and/or semitones
         was non-standard; see Remarks above.
     In 2000, the instrument was enlarged to 30 bells
       by an unknown maker
     In 1999, the instrument was enlarged to 29 bells
       by an unknown maker
     In 1998, the instrument was enlarged to 26 bells
       by an unknown maker
     In 1989, the instrument was enlarged to 21 bells
       by the maker cited in Remarks above
     In 1989, the instrument was enlarged to 20 bells
       by Paccard         
     In 1939, the instrument was begun with 15 bells
       by Paccard         
       Pitch of heaviest bell was C  in the treble octave
       Keyboard range was:     C F#  /    ----  
       Transposition was up one octave
   No auxiliary mechanisms known
   Tower details not available
   Year of latest technical information source is 2024

The French Wikipedia has a complete article about this carillon, with photos of the building, the bells and the keyboard.  The text claims 44 bells, which must include swinging bells that are not part of the carillon, since the keyboard photos shows only 40 usable notes.

Photos of the building

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Index to all traditional carillons in France.

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   This page was built from the database on  2-Mar-25
   based on textual data last updated on 2025/02/02
   and on technical data last updated on 2024/09/04