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The bell tower will be of especial comfort to Carillonneur Anton Brees. M. Brees presides over the 53-bell carillon, a gift of Trustee John Davison Rockefeller Jr., which will be installed (TIME, Feb. 22, 1926) in the new edifice. M. Brees complains that the carillon at its present low...
The bell tower, 75 feet square at the base, will be over 300 feet high and topped by some architectural form other than a spire. Here will be cased the 53 bells of the carillon Mr. Rockefeller has had installed in the present Park Avenue Church tower as a memorial...
As everyone knows, John D. Rockefeller Jr. recently presented the Park Avenue Baptist Church with a set of bells, the largest carillon in the world, and procured from Belgium Anton Brees, carillonneur, to play them. Every Sunday, every Thursday evening and sometimes in the morning, the bells have beautifully pealed...
Carillonneur Brees, when confronted with these complaints, admitted that the music of his bells is not all that it should be. Because the Baptist Church is so low and the echoing walls so high, the carillon sounds to a man in the street much as a great organ would sound...