POITIERS - BL : FRANCE - 86

*Location:

   Bijouterie Landreau
   "La Maison des Fiancés"
   Rue des Cordeliers
   Poitiers, Vienne, France
   LL: N 46.58241, E 0.34154
Site locator map
City locator maps and gazetteer page

*Contact:

   Landreau, Joaillier Créateur & Horloger
   28 Rue des Cordeliers
   86000 Poitiers
   T: 05 49 41 16 89

*Schedule:

   (unknown)

*Remarks:

   Autoplay with animation

*Technical data:

   Electric-automatic chime of  9 bells
   Pitch of heaviest bell is unknown
   Transposition is not applicable
   Keyboard range:     ----  /    ----  
   The arrangement of tones and semitones is unknown.
   The whole instrument was installed in 1972
     with bells made by Petit & Fritsen
   No auxiliary mechanisms known
   Tower details not available
   Year of latest technical information source is 2018
*Links:

The company home page has a rotating series of large photos, one of which shows the store facade including some of the bells.  (All bells are clearly visible on Google Streetview.)

A page about some French carillons has a photo of the building facade and a video.

Where this work lies in the sequence of output of the Petit & Fritsen 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/Vienne.

*Status:
   This page was built from the database on  5-May-20
   based on textual data last updated on 2020/05/01
   and on technical data last updated on 1995/04/22
*Photos:

(none available)

Explanations of page format and keyboard range are available.

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