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carillon

  • ️Wed Feb 19 2025

But at the carillon, he can control the intensity of each hammer strike based on how hard he punches the levers.

Cal students crossing campus regularly hear it ring on the hour, with a live concert featuring the 61-bell carillon at noon.

He will have frequent opportunities of hearing the beautiful and mellow carillon, perhaps to excess.

The bells were of many blended tones and notes, an immense carillon.

A mysterious, night-like carillon accompaniment, delicate as harebells, gives sudden way to a superb support of a powerful outburst at the end of the song.

As we submitted ourselves to this humiliation, the carillon of the belfry suddenly came to us over a quarter of a mile of roofs.

The carillon ceased, and began again, reaching us in snatches over the roofs in the night wind.

In ancient times these carillons were played by hand on a keyboard, called a clavecin.

The tower contained a fine carillon of bells arranged on a rather bizarre platform, giving a most quaint effect to the turret which surmounted it.

And the modern tendency of the best builders is to make the organ still more orchestral in character, by the addition of carillons and other percussion stops.

A sort of carillon sounded brightly.

The heavenly, pure carillon rang out again and again, as dusk fell deeper, the singer altering the pitch with each repetition of the song, ringing one lovely change after another.

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