Chime

A chime is a Musical instrument made up, according to the world federation (World Carillon Federation) of a minimum of 23 granted Cloche S emitting each one their own sound. The leaves of the bells are actuated by the bell ringer using a keyboard.

A chime can be integrated into a monument: turn of church, cathedral, bell-tower, town hall, etc and to be accompanied by automats. One frequently finds of it in the Northern of the France, with the Netherlands, in Belgium, the Suisse or the Southern of the Germany.

In France, the largest chimes are in general placed in the bell-towers of the churches and the belfries communal. On all the territory of Occitanie, the chimes are very numerous but of more reduced size: generally one to two octaves. There are remarkable chimes with Albi, Bergues, Blois, Buglose, Bruges, Cappelle-the-Large, Carcassonne, Castelnaudary, Castres, Chambéry, Douai, Dunkirk, Forcalquier, Hondschoote, Lisieux, Narbonne, Pamiers, Paris (Holy-Odile), Rouen, Saint-Amand-the-Water, Saint-Gaudens, Seclin, Toulouse (Saint-Sernin, Saint-Etienne, Saint-Exupère, Saint-Joseph).

The greatest chime of France (with 70 bells on the whole) is with Chambéry, in the Yolande Tower of the Ste Chapelle of the Castle of the Dukes of Savoy.

In a little all the areas of France and in Switzerland, one meets chimes of more modest size (3 to 8 bells) where the bell ringer does not play on a keyboard. Either it seizes its cords with the hand, or it assoit on a bench, clings cords to the elbows, the knees, the feet and seizes others with the hands of them. By its spectacular gesticulations sitted on its bench, it actuates the leaves thus directly. These traditions to sound manually on small chimes tend to disappear, victims of the electrification of the bells, and the replacement of the bell ringers by electronic programmers.

See too

  • Cloche
  • a Chime is also inhabitant of the Career-on-Seine
  • Musée Campanological European of Art

External bonds

  • World Federation of the Chime

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