*Location:

   Couvent (Basìlique) de la Visitation
   Avenue de la Visitation
   Annecy(-le-Vieux),
     Haute-Savoie, France
   LL: N 45.89255, E 6.12731

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*Carillonist:

   Jean-Bernard Lemoine
   2 chemin des Chapelaines
   74940 Annecy-le-Vieux
   T: 50 66 17 37
   E: lemoinejb@wanadoo.fr

*Contact:

   Office du Tourisme d'Annecy
   - or -
   Monastère Visitation
   11 Avenue de la Visitation
   74000 Annecy
   T: 04 50 45 20 30

*Schedule:

   Religious holidays; also Saturday
   afternoons from Easter to All-Saints.

*Technical data:

   Traditional carillon of 37 bells
   Pitch of heaviest bell is unknown
   Keyboard range:     ----  /    ----  
   Transposition is unknown
   The arrangement of tones and semitones is unknown.
   The presence or absence of a practice console is unknown
   The instrument was enlarged in 1989
     with bells made by Paccard      
   Prior history:
     In 1986, the instrument was enlarged
       with bells made by Paccard     
     In 1983, the instrument was enlarged
       with bells made by Paccard     
     In 1981, the instrument was enlarged
       with bells made by Paccard     
     In 1941, the instrument was begun with 26 bells
       by Paccard     
       Pitch of heaviest bell (excluding sub-bourdon) was C  in the itty-bitty octave
       Keyboard range was: (A )C C   /    ----  
       Transposition was up two octaves
       There were no missing bass semitones
   No auxiliary mechanisms known
   Tower details not available
   Year of latest technical information source is 1992

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Index to all traditional carillons in France.

Index to all tower bell instruments in France/Haute-Savoie.

   This page was built from the database on 14-Oct-24
   based on textual data last updated on 2020/05/01
   and on technical data last updated on 1993/07/25