Le Grand Carillon

*Location:

   Le Village Chasseloup
   Grand Parc
   Puy du Fou
   Les Epesses, Vendée, France
   LL: N 46.88787, W 0.93221

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*Player:

   (unknown)

*Contact:

   Association du Puy du Fou
   Puy du Fou France
   CS 70025
   85590 Les Epesses
   T: 0820 09 10 10

*Schedule:

   (unknown)

*Remarks:

   Advertised as having 70 bells, but some
   of them are purely ornamental, while
   some swing, and some are playable from
   a unique mechanical keyboard and
   pedalboard.

*Technical data:

   Carillon-sized instrument with action described in Remarks above of 70 bells
   Pitch of heaviest bell is unknown
   Keyboard range:     ----  /    ----  
   Transposition is unknown
   The arrangement of tones and semitones is unknown.
   The whole instrument was installed in 1981
     with bells made by an unknown maker 
   No auxiliary mechanisms known
   Tower details not available
   Year of latest technical information source is 1992

The Website about this place has a page about this set of bells, with three photos of the tower.

A publicity video (0:53) about the village includes some brief views of the tower and the show that goes on there.

Wikipedia Commons photo of the bell tower in action; note the keyboardist at left.
Among the 800-plus photos in the Wikimedia Commons category for this place, there are 15 photos of the bell tower in action, and two of it at rest.

Where this work lies in the sequence of output of unknown bellfoundries, 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/Vendée.

   This page was built from the database on  1-Aug-25
   based on textual data last updated on 2025/07/25
   and on technical data last updated on 2025/07/25