MONTRÉAL - NDSD : CANADA - QU

*Location:

   Église Notre-Dame-des-Sept-Douleurs 
   rue Wellington & rue Galt 
   Verdun, 
     Montréal, Québec, Canada

*Player:

  (unknown)

*Contact:

   Église Notre-Dame-des-Sept-Douleurs 
   4155, rue Wellington 
   Montréal  H4G 1V8 
   T: (514)761-3496   F: (514)762-2707

*Schedule:

  (unknown)

*Remarks:

   Five heavy bells swing (C,F,G,A,C); 
   others only chime (Bb,C#-chrom-G).

*Technical data:

   Chime-sized instrument with action described in Remarks above of 13 bells
   Pitch of heaviest bell (excluding sub-bourdon) is E  in the middle octave
   Transposition is down 1 semitone(s)
   Keyboard range: (C) F G   /    NONE  
   There are three added semitones
   There is no practice console
   The whole instrument was installed in 1924
     with bells made by Paccard     
   Year of latest technical information source is 2005

*Links:

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

A description of building, bells and organs (English in bottom half of page) - click on the picture of the organ to see pictures of the church exterior and interior.

An old black and white photo of the building.

There is no locator map yet.

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).

Index to all tower bell instruments in QU.

*Status:

   This page was built from the database on 31-Oct-05
   based on textual data last updated on 2005/10/07
   and on technical data last updated on 2005/09/08

Explanations of page format and keyboard range are available.

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