BOISSON : FRANCE - 30

*Location:

   L'église Saint-Félix
   Boisson,
     Allègre-les-Fumades, Gard, France
   LL: N 44.20789, E 4.25823
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*Contact:

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*Schedule:

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*Remarks:

   Chime without keyboard

*Technical data:

   Electric-automatic chime of 10 bells
   Pitch of heaviest bell is unknown
   Transposition is not applicable
   Keyboard range:     ----  /    ----  
   The arrangement of tones and semitones is unknown.
   Installation was completed in unknown year
     with bells made by an unknown maker
   No auxiliary mechanisms known
   Tower details not available
   Year of latest technical information source is 2020
*Links:

The French Wikipedia article about the nearby town mentions the hamlet of Boisson and has a photo of the church there; it also mentions a "carillon of 10 bells, the most important in Gard".
The photo shows 6 bells visible in a pair of open belfries at the sides of the tower, plus a louvred octagonal belfry above the central clock.
Another photo

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.

*Status:
   This page was built from the database on 11-May-20
   based on textual data last updated on 2020/05/07
   and on technical data last updated on 2020/04/22
*Photos:

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