Le Carillon de Chantemerle

*Location:

   Eglise de la Rosiaz
   Pl.Chantemerle
   Avenue de Belmont at Avenue de l'Avenir
   Pully, Vaud, Switzerland
   LL: N 46.51699, E 6.66147

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*Carillonist:

   Daniel D. R. Thomas
   E: dt@carillonneur.ch
   - and -
   Jean-François Cavin

   Jacques Viret

*Contact:

   Les Amis de Carillon de Chantemerle
   Chemin de Beaumont 8
   1053 Cugy

*Schedule:

   (unknown)

*Remarks:

   Original added semitones were flat 7th
   and its octave, flat 10th, flat 12th.

*Technical data:

   Traditional carillon of 48 bells
   Pitch of heaviest bell is unknown
   Transposition is unknown
   Keyboard range:     ----  /    ----  
   The arrangement of tones and semitones is unknown.
   The presence or absence of a practice console is unknown
   The instrument was enlarged in 2014
     with bells made by an unknown maker
   Prior history:
     In 2011, the instrument was enlarged to 24 bells
       by Perner      
       Pitch of heaviest bell was A  in the middle octave
       Transposition was up  9 semitone(s)
       Keyboard range was:     C C   /    C E   
       There was one missing bass semitone
     In 1953, the instrument was begun with 19 bells
       by Eijsbouts   
       Keyboard range was:     C C   /    C E 11
       There were four added semitones
   Auxiliary mechanisms: IS5   
   Tower details not available
   Year of latest technical information source is 2014

The carillon's own Website still reflects the original 19 bells.

Tower photo (78KB) from the GCCS Website.

The Website of the Friends of the Carillon of Chantemerle has the concert schedule, photos, audio and video clips (all in French).

Where the initial phase of this work lies in the sequence of output of the Eijsbouts bellfoundry, in this region and in the world.
Where the second phase of this work lies in the sequence of output of the Perner bellfoundry, in this region and in the world.
Where the final phase of this work lies in the sequence of output of unknown bellfoundries, in this region and in the world.

Ranking among all European traditional carillons by pitch (weight).
Ranking among all European traditional carillons by size (number of bells).
Ranking among all European traditional carillons by year of completion.

Index to all tower bell instruments in Switzerland.

   This page was built from the database on  5-Nov-23
   based on textual data last updated on 2014/06/10
   and on technical data last updated on 2014/06/10