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Recordist's notes
This is a recording of chime wheel ("roue à carillons" in french), also named "fortune wheel" or "glory wheel", which used to be a very common percussion instrument in the Middle Ages in Brittany. It is comprised of twelve small bells covering the twelve notes composing an octave. Those wheels were primarily used for celebrating baptisms and weddings. This specific wheel can be found in the Notre-Dame-de-Confort church, and is the only known remaining in the Finistère, at the extreme west part of Brittany. Here's a link to a wikipedia page (only available in french or german) : https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roue_%C3%A0_carillons Recorded with a Zoom H4n.
About the place
Douarnenez is a town of about 16,590 people in Brittany, France. OttoAnna lists 2 field recordings from here.
Equipment mentioned: Zoom H4n. One of the most widely used field recorders of the 2010s, with X/Y mics and two XLR inputs.
Recorded nearby
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Sources & credits
- “168 Rue Pen ar Bed, 29790 Confort-Meilars, France - Chime wheel” by Maxime Quardon – Public Domain Mark · radio aporee ::: maps via Internet Archive
- Reverse geocoding: GeoNames – CC BY 4.0