*Location:

   Church of St.Gervais
   Rue des Chapeliers / Rue Saint-Gervais
     at Rue Saint-Anselme
   Avranches, Manche, France
   LL: N 48.68647, W 1.35868

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*Player:

   (None.)

*Contact:

   (unknown)

*Schedule:

   (unknown)

*Remarks:

   Trebles played from non-standard
   baton keyboard; basses (G,C,D,E,G)
   played from electrified pedalboard.
   (The original tracker action was
   too heavy!)

*Technical data:

   Carillon-sized instrument with action described in Remarks above of 25 bells
   Pitch of heaviest bell (excluding sub-bourdon) is unknown
   Transposition is unknown
   Keyboard range:     C F 18/(G) C G  5
   The arrangement of tones and/or semitones
     is non-standard; see Remarks above.
   The whole instrument was installed in 1901
     with bells made by Bollée      
   Auxiliary mechanisms: E     
   Tower details not available
   Year of latest technical information source is 1979

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

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

Index to all tower bell instruments in France/Landes.

   This page was built from the database on  5-May-20
   based on textual data last updated on 2020/05/01
   and on technical data last updated on 1992/01/22