*Location:

   Hotel Les Cloches de Corneville
   Route de Carillon, off Hwy.D130
   Corneville-sur-Risle
   Corneville, Eure, France
   LL: N 49.34332, E 0.58981

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NOTE:  The Google Streetview is obsolete; highway D675 has been reconstructed and hotel grounds have been extensively renovated.  (Hotel rooms can be booked through AirBNB.)

*Player:

   (unknown)

*Contact:

   Hotel Les Cloches de Corneville
   51 Rue du Carillon
   27500 Corneville-sur-Risle
   T: 32 57 01 04

*Schedule:

   (unknown)

*Remarks:

   In tower-like room on top floor;
   keyboard and frame have space to add
   two more bells.

*Technical data:

   Traditional chime (chimestand) of 12 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 whole instrument was installed in 1900
     with bells made by an unknown maker 
   No auxiliary mechanisms known
   Tower details not available
   Year of latest technical information source is 2018

Historic photo of bells and chimestand

The Paccard project page about this chime has three photos.

In a photo of the building, no belfry is visible because the bells are indoors, on the top floor.

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/Eure.

   This page was built from the database on 29-Dec-24
   based on textual data last updated on 2024/12/21
   and on technical data last updated on 2018/09/10