Thomas Rees Memorial Carillon in Springfield's Washington Park Credit: Ryan Smith It can be lonely at the top—and it almost always is at the top of the monolithic musical instruments known as ...

When you think “church bell ringer,” you might think of the hunchback Quasimodo of fiction and film. The modern bell ringer doesn’t swing from ropes, but rather plays a keyboard made of wooden keys ...

As a parent with 5-year-old twins in Linn-Benton Community College’s cooperative preschool in Corvallis, Mark Miller is always on the lookout for good field trip opportunities. So when he learned ...

During eight Sundays of the summer, the Cohasset Common and village is turned into a concert hall where the sounds of 57 bells high above the village play some of the most beautiful music anywhere.

The Princeton University carillon is mammoth, even by the standards of the largest family of musical instruments in the world. Carillons, a group of no fewer than 23 bells typically housed in a tower ...

More than 150 carillonists from all over the world convened at Rockefeller Memorial Chapel in June for performances and presentations of research and historical studies as part of the 79th Annual ...

The carillon, man. The carillon. It’s what all the cool kids are playing these days. It’s replaced the melodica as the current quirky musical flavor of the month. But this instrument is a bit more ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook The chimes start ringing, 120 feet above, just as the heavy doors shut behind me. Underfoot, the ...

MERCERSBURG >> "Unlike a piano recital, where people sit and listen, a carillon concert allows people to walk around and talk," said James Brinson, carillonneur at Mercersburg Academy. "The majority ...

LAKE WALES, Fla. — If you’ve been to Bok Tower Gardens, then you couldn’t miss the Bok Tower itself. Built in the 1920s, it was the heaviest musical instrument at that time. Only four people have ever ...