*Location:

   Église Saint-Folquin
   Place Alphonse Bergerot
   Esquelbecq, Nord, France
   LL: N 50.88621, E 2.43168

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*Player:

   (unknown)

*Contact:

   (unknown)

*Schedule:

   Autoplay at the hour and half hour,
   0800-2000

*Remarks:

   Electric keyboard two octaves G-G.
   Also 4 large swingers, same foundry
   and year.

*Technical data:

   Electric-keyboard chime of 19 bells
   Pitch of heaviest bell is D  in the treble octave
   Transposition is up one octave
   Keyboard range:     D G#  /    NONE  
   There are no missing bass semitones
   The whole instrument was installed in 1977
     with bells made by Cornille-Havard 
   Auxiliary mechanisms: E     
   Tower details not available
   Year of latest technical information source is 2012

The French Wikipedia article about the building has photos of it, and mentions the number of bells in the tower but without details.

The ARPAC page about these bells (archived 2019) has a detailed inventory.

Photos of the building

Where this work lies in the sequence of output of the Cornille-Havard bellfoundry, 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/Nord.

   This page was built from the database on  8-Sep-24
   based on textual data last updated on 2024/09/04
   and on technical data last updated on 2020/05/07