MONTREAL - STPI : CANADA - QU

*Location:

   Église Saint-Pierre-Apôtre
   (St.Peter the Apostle)
   rue de la Visitation
     at Boulevard René-Lévesque Est
   Montréal, Québec, Canada
   LL: N 45.51840, W 73.55316

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*Player:

   (unknown)

*Contact:

   Église Saint-Pierre-Apôtre
   1201, rue de la Visitation
   Montréal, QC  H2L 3B5
   T: (514)524-3791   F: (514)524-0760

*Schedule:

   (unknown)

*Remarks:

   Two diatonic octaves on Bb, omitting
   second and fourth deepest notes.
   Heaviest 6 bells swing (Bb,D,F,G,A,Bb);
   others chime (C,D,Eb,F,G,A,Bb)

*Technical data:

   Chime-sized instrument with action described in Remarks above of 13 bells
   Pitch of heaviest bell (excluding sub-bourdon) is A# in the bass octave
   Transposition is unknown
   Keyboard range: (A#)D A#**/    NONE  
   The arrangement of tones and/or semitones
     is non-standard; see Remarks above.
   There is no practice console
   The whole instrument was installed in 1890
     with bells made by Paccard     
   Year of latest technical information source is 2005

*Links:

On the Diocesan Webpage for this parish, a photo alternates between exterior and interior views.

Where this work lies in the sequence of output of the Paccard bellfoundry, in this region and in the world.

Ranking among all North American chimes by size (number of bells).
Ranking among all North American chimes by weight (pitch).
Ranking among all North American chimes by year of completion.

Index to all tower bell instruments in QU.

*Status:

   This page was built from the database on 21-Sep-10
   based on textual data last updated on 2010/09/20
   and on technical data last updated on 2005/09/08

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