MONTREAL - O : CANADA - QU

*Location:

   Oratoire St-Joseph du Mont-Royal
     (St.Joseph's Oratory)
   Queen Mary Road / Reine Marie
   Montréal, Québec, Canada
   LL: N 45.49165, W 73.61809

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*Player:

   Claude Aubin, Carillonneur   (C)
   Oratoire St.-Joseph
   3800 Queen Mary Road
   Montréal, QC  H3V 1H6
   - and -
   Claire Poirier, Asst.Carillonneur
   30 Place Cote Vertu #507
   St.Laurent, PQ  H4N 1G3
   T: (514)336-2167   F: (514)733-9735

   1955-75 Emilien Allard   (1915-77)
   1976-80 Andrea McCrady   (C)

*Contact:

   Lise Aubin
   T: (514)733-8211 x2581

*Schedule:

   Wed-Thu noon and 3pm;
   Sun noon and 2:30pm (except in Feb);
   summer guest recitals

      The latest summer schedule of recitals and recitalists

*Remarks:

   Some bells installed in 1955.
   Instrument originally designed for the
   Eiffel Tower in Paris; plans changed.
   Original keyboard 6 octaves C-C.
   Major renovation by Taylor, 1981,
   including new playing and practice
   keyboards, range unknown.
   Bass bell added in 2004 was cast in 1949
   for Saint-Jean-de-la-Croix, Montreal
   (now closed); missing semitone is
   bass C# on keyboards.

*Technical data:

   Traditional carillon of 57 bells
   Pitch of heaviest bell is D  in the middle octave
   Transposition is up  3 semitone(s)
   Keyboard range:     C G 56/    B C 25
   The arrangement of tones and/or semitones
     is non-standard; see Remarks above.
   There is a practice console
   The instrument was enlarged in 2004
     with 1 bell made by Paccard in 1949
   Prior history:
     In 1956, the instrument was begun with 56 bells
       by Paccard     
   Year of latest technical information source is 1970

Additional information on the technical history of this instrument can be found in a database printout.

*Links:

The Oratory Website has a photo of the main building on the home page.  There is an English-language page about the carillon, with photos.

An information page has front and aerial views of the building complex; in the aerial view, the carillon is atop the rear corner of the L-shaped building to the right of the front of the Basilica.

Building photos from Emporis Buildings (though none show the "temporary" bell tower)
(Also see our Emporis Advice.)

Where the initial phase of this work lies in the sequence of output of the Paccard bellfoundry, in this region and in the world.
(The 2004 addition, being a re-used older bell, is not indexed.)

Ranking among all North American traditional carillons by weight.
Ranking among all North American traditional carillons by size (number of bells).
Ranking among all North American concert class carillons by age.

Index to all traditional carillons in QU.

Index to all tower bell instruments in QU.

*Status:

   This page was built from the database on 14-Mar-08
   based on textual data last updated on 2008/03/14
   and on technical data last updated on 2008/03/14

Explanations of page format and keyboard range are available.

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