CHATENAY : FRANCE - 38

*Location:

   Église
   La Grande Charrière
     at Chemin de la Cottonière
   Chatenay, Isère, France
   LL: N 45.31947, E 5.22978
Site locator map
City locator maps and gazetteer page not available (indeterminate)

*Player:

   (unknown)

*Contact:

   (unknown)

*Schedule:

   (unknown)

*Remarks:

   Last bell by François Valette, Lyon;
   two octaves G-G, incomplete.

*Technical data:

   Traditional chime (baton keyboard) of 19 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 unknown year
     by the maker cited in Remarks above
   Prior history:
     In 1850, the instrument was begun with 18 bells
       made by Bollée      
   No auxiliary mechanisms known
   Tower details not available
   Year of latest technical information source is 1992
*Links:

A French-language article mentions the carillon, but little else.

Where the final phase of this work lies in the sequence of output of the Bollée bellfoundry, in this region and in the world.
Where the initial phase of this work lies in the sequence of output of miscellaneous 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/Isère.

*Status:
   This page was built from the database on  5-Nov-23
   based on textual data last updated on 2020/05/01
   and on technical data last updated on 1993/07/25
*Photos:

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