*Location:

   Église Notre-Dame des Miracles
   Place Raymond d'Alfaro
   Avignonet-Lauragais,
     Haute-Garonne, France
   LL: N 43.36635, E 1.78917

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*Player:

   Jean Plancade

*Contact:

   (unknown)

*Schedule:

   (unknown)

*Remarks:

   Bells by Vinel, except sub-bourdon
   cast in 1617.
   14-note chimestand, 12 levers used.
   Added semitones sharp 4th & flat 7th.

*Technical data:

   Traditional chime (chimestand) of 13 bells
   Pitch of heaviest bell (excluding sub-bourdon) is unknown
   Transposition is unknown
   Keyboard range:     ----  /    ----  
   There are two added semitones
   The presence or absence of a practice console is unknown
   The whole instrument was installed in 1925
     with bells made by the maker cited in Remarks above (except for 1)
   Auxiliary mechanisms: S1    
   Tower details not available
   Year of latest technical information source is 2024

The French Wikipedia article about the building has a photo showing a 2-stage octagonal belfry from 14th c., but there is no mention of bells.

Photos of the building

The Association Carillons en Pays d'Oc has a page about this instrument (in French), including a photo of the former chimestand, which used 12 of 14 levers.

Where this work lies in the sequence of output of unknown bellfoundries, in this region and in the world.

Ranking among all French chimes by size (number of bells).
Ranking among all French chimes by pitch of largest bell.
Ranking among all French chimes by year of completion.

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

   This page was built from the database on 16-Aug-24
   based on textual data last updated on 2024/08/09
   and on technical data last updated on 2024/08/09