LAVAL : CANADA - QU

*Location:

   Place Claude Léveillée
   Rue Jacques-Tétrault
     at Boulevard de l'Avenir
   Laval, Quebec, Canada
   LL: N 45.55921, W 73.72066
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*Contact:

   City of Laval

*Schedule:

   Automatic hourly; longer at noon

*Technical data:

   Electric-automatic carillon of 25 bells
   Pitch of heaviest bell is unknown
   Transposition is not applicable
   Keyboard range:     ----  /    ----  
   The arrangement of tones and semitones is unknown.
   The whole instrument was installed in 2011
     with bells made by Petit & Fritsen
   No auxiliary mechanisms known
   Tower details not available
   Year of latest technical information source is 2015
*Links:

The waymarking page for this tower has a gallery with more than 20 photos contributed by visitors.  There is a link to a silent video which is mostly a sequence of snapshots/

News article (June 2011) on this monument, with photo

Where this work lies in the sequence of output of the Petit & Fritsen bellfoundry, in this region and in the world.

Ranking among all North American non-traditional carillons by weight.
Ranking among all North American non-traditional carillons by size (number of bells).
Ranking among all North American non-traditional carillons by year of completion.

Index to all tower bell instruments in QU.

*Status:
   This page was built from the database on  4-Oct-15
   based on textual data last updated on 2015/10/03
   and on technical data last updated on 2015/10/03
*Photos:

(none available)

Explanations of page format and keyboard range are available.

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