[Bell Historians] Notre Dame

[Samuel Austin]

If its of any interest, I've heard the bells at Notre
Dame de Paris many times.

They are a diatonic 4 - F, E, D, C and I estimate the
tenor to be about c30cwt. At first, I thought they
sounded crap but I've changed my opinion. They are in
tune with each other but not harmonically tuned.

Aye

Sam

--- David Cawley <dave at WiL0_SBkUAkEN9WwG3K2e7m_RKFeC35Xi6izkg_cZu4sWp9TPC6dT6yh3pTNcooemLMIol9r3OHYR1qIzR9_tAg.yahoo.invalid> wrote:

> Been on holiday so you've been spared my
> outpourings.
> 
> Regarding Notre Dame de Paris, the Bourdon (now in
> its 4th recasting, 1685, 
> is supposed to weigh 30,00 livres note fa bemol) and
> it is certainly a fine 
> sound. In the south tower.
> 
> Before the French Revolution there were two
> bourdons; the other was 20,000 
> livres (note sol). It took the revolutionaries three
> weeks to smash it and 
> the old set of eight bells ("le plus formidable de
> la France, dont la plus 
> grosse peze 10,000 livres"), leaving only the "gros
> bourdon".
> 
> There were no other bells until 1856, when Guillaume
> Besson cast a set of 
> four, largest 4,500 livres. They are said to be out
> of tune with the Bourdon 
> and with each other, devoid of ornamentation
> (usually a feature of French 
> bells, see the mighty five from St Helier, presently
> at Loughborough being 
> rehung), and "unworthy of the metropolitical
> Cathedral of Paris".
> 
> Muc of the above derived from an interesting 19th
> century work "Enquetes 
> Campanaires Francaises et Etrangeres" by Dr Billon).
> Perhaps someone can 
> work out the precise weights if they know the
> equivalent of the French livre 
> to the English pound; likewise the equivalent of the
> notes, from tonic 
> sol-fa to musical note notation.
> 
> A bientot
> 
> DLC
> 
> 
> 
> 
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> Subject: Re: [Bell Historians] Notre Dame
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> > --- In bellhistorians at yahoogroups.com, Robert
> Lewis <editor at ...> wrote:
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> >> I have received an enquiry about the bells at
> Notre Dame in Paris.
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> > There is a nice picture at
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http://www.fromparis.com/modules/large.php?style=large&pano=000086_06
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> > Mike
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