MONTREAL - STE : CANADA - QU

*Location:

   Église Saint-Édouard
   (St.Edward the Confessor)
   rue St-Denis & rue Beaubien E
   Montréal, Québec, Canada
   LL: N 45.53436, W 73.60522

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*Player:

   (unknown)

*Contact:

   Église Saint-Édouard
   6500, rue de St-Vallier E
   Montréal, QC  H2S 2P7
   T: (514)271-4789   F: (514)273-8002

*Schedule:

   (unknown)

*Remarks:

   Five heavy bells swing (C,F,G,A,C);
   others only chime (Bb,C#-chrom-G).

*Technical data:

   Chime-sized instrument with action described in Remarks above of 13 bells
   Pitch of heaviest bell (excluding sub-bourdon) is E  in the middle octave
   Transposition is down 1 semitone(s)
   Keyboard range: (C) F G   /    NONE  
   There are three added semitones
   There is no practice console
   The whole instrument was installed in 1923
     with bells made by Paccard     
   Year of latest technical information source is 2005

*Links:

On the Diocesan Webpage for this church, a photo alternates between interior and exterior views of the building.

A local churches page has a photo of the building.

An information page has a description of building, bells and organs (English in bottom half of page), but no exterior photo.

Where this work lies in the sequence of output of the Paccard bellfoundry, in this region and in the world.

Ranking among all North American chimes by size (number of bells).
Ranking among all North American chimes by weight (pitch).
Ranking among all North American chimes by year of completion.

Index to all tower bell instruments in QU.

*Status:

   This page was built from the database on 21-Sep-10
   based on textual data last updated on 2010/09/20
   and on technical data last updated on 2005/10/07

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