TANINGES : FRANCE - 74

*Location:

   Église Saint-Jean-Baptiste de Taninges
   Rue de la Poste (D907)
     at Avenue de Thezieres (D902)
     (town center)
   Taninges, Haute-Savoie, France
   LL: N 46.10715, E 6.59180
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*Carillonist:

   Jean-Bernard Lemoine
   2 chemin des Chapelaines
   74940 Annecy-le-Vieux
   T: 50 66 17 37   or   50 27 30 01
   T: 50 66 17 37
   E: lemoinejb@wanadoo.fr
*Former carillonists:
   ~1995  Marius Cachat
   ~1995-~2009  Monique Larnac
   ~2009  Anne Abel

*Contact:

   (unknown)

*Schedule:

   Wednesdays in July and early August.

*Remarks:

   Also reported as 26 bells.
   Restored in 1986.

*Technical data:

   Traditional carillon of 40 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
     with bells made by an unknown maker
   Prior history:
     In 1989, the instrument was enlarged to 21 bells
       by Paccard     
     In 1939, the instrument was begun with an unknown number of bells
       by Paccard     
   No auxiliary mechanisms known
   Tower details not available
   Year of latest technical information source is 2010
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Where the initial phase of this work lies in the sequence of output of the Paccard bellfoundry, in this region and in the world.
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Ranking among all French traditional carillons by pitch (weight).
Ranking among all French traditional carillons by size (number of bells).
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Index to all traditional carillons in France.

Index to all tower bell instruments in France/Haute-Savoie.

*Status:
   This page was built from the database on  9-Feb-24
   based on textual data last updated on 2024/01/23
   and on technical data last updated on 1993/07/25
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