QUEBEC - STS : CANADA - QU

*Location:

   Église Saint-Sauveur
   215, av. des Oblats at Rue De Carillon
   Québec City, Québec, Canada
   LL: N 46.81094, W 71.23602

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*Contact:

   Église Saint-Sauveur
   215, av. des Oblats
   Québec City, QC  G1K 9A4
   T: (418)525-7550   F: (418)523-3042

*Schedule:

   (unknown)

*Remarks:

   Some bells dated 1895;
   notes are C,D#,E,F,G,A,B,C,D

*Technical data:

   Motor-swung peal of  9 bells
   Pitch of heaviest bell is C  in the middle octave
   Transposition is nil (concert pitch)
   Keyboard range:     C D **/    NONE  
   The arrangement of tones and/or semitones
     is non-standard; see Remarks above.
   There is no practice console
   The whole instrument was installed in 1896
     with bells made by Paccard     
   Year of latest technical information source is 2005

*Links:

A page about Mass schedules includes a tiny photo of the building.

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 16-Jun-09
   based on textual data last updated on 2009/06/15
   and on technical data last updated on 2005/09/08

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