Word: carillonned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Church tower, 16 well-muscled men and one well-muscled woman shivered in a northwest gale and listened. They did not have to prick up their ears. The din was deafening enough to split eardrums less inured. Around them boomed the 72 bells of the Laura Spelman Rockefeller Memorial Carillon, loudest and biggest in the U. S. The biggest of these bells weighed as much as a good-sized army tank, the loudest of them could be heard in the neighboring State of New Jersey. But to the 17 listeners this tintinnabulation was a concord of sweet sound. For they...
...proper belfries have bells, as well as bats, and some have chimes. Only the finest belfries have carillons. A carillon has at least 23 bells,* tuned to all the notes of the scale and operated by wires and cranks from a central "clavier" bristling with hefty levers and slat-like foot pedals. By punching with his clenched fists and scrabbling with his feet, a good carillonneur can play anything from roundelays to opera. Because a carillon concert takes a deal of punching and scrabbling, carillonneurs have to be husky. Because all carillons are different, and because very little music...
...years after Buck's death was the chapel completed, but it fulfilled his wishes in every detail. A $1,000,000 structure, it looks like a cathedral (its tower was modeled after Canterbury Cathedral's Bell Harry Tower), has 77 costly stained-glass windows, a 50-bell carillon. Off the transept is a memorial room in which Carrara marble figures of Washington Duke and Sons Buck and Benjamin lie in state. Below is a crypt for members of the Duke family. What Professor Blackburn fails to mention, but what no visitor can fail...
...placed in the orchestra seats while the audience sat on the stage. When part of the national chorus, transported to the World's Fair, reached the climax of the Federation's week-a concert in the Court of Peace-it encountered competition. A carillon in the Belgian Pavilion was ding-donging for all it was worth. The chorus, aided by the club-ladies who valiantly joined in the singing, put up a good fight. But the carillon...
...House of Lowell was blessed with a carillon, an authentic Russian Zvon from Moscow. And with the Zvon came Saradjeff, the official Zvonar from the Soviet Government, commissioned to ring the Zvon and impart his knowledge to the barbarians of Harvard. All would have been well if Saradjeff bad not had a sensitive Russian Soul, unaccustomed to the complex chaos of America. To this chaos was added the horrible fact that few Americans spoke Russian and Saradjeff spoke no English...