Word: carillonned
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...influence of religion in every phase of American life." For its Temple of Religion it set aside 50,000 square feet, a many-sided 150-foot tower of vaguely ecclesiastical appearance. The interior, without seats, would serve for lectures and discussions of noncontroversial subjects. From one organ and a carillon, music would "softly pervade" the garden surrounding the tower. The Temple's ground would not be consecrated, nor would any denominational services be held...
...francs (then $27,000,000). Among benefactors who contributed millions of francs to the restoration of Reims were the late ex-Empress Eugénie of France and John D. Rockefeller Jr.. the latter giving 15,000,000 francs to rebuild the roof, install a 13-bell carillon...
...bell founding reached its height in the Low Countries of Europe by the 18th Century, was thereafter a lost art until British bellmakers began rediscovering it about 40 years ago. When alumni and faculty members of Alfred University resolved to spend some $10,000 on a memorial carillon for President Emeritus Boothe Colwell Davis, they instructed a bell founding firm of Brussels, Michaux & Michaels, to buy 35 old bells rather than cast new ones, which would cost somewhat more. Agents of Michaux & Michaels bought the bells in municipal halls, churches and chateaux of Belgium, Holland, northern France. Many...
...youngest bell in the collection was cast in 1784 by another famed bellman, Van den Gheyn of Malines. The 35 assorted bells were assembled and tuned-by scraping metal from the lower "lip" and the inner surface-by Jef Denyn, director of the Belgian National School of the Carillon. The carillon, housed temporarily in a wooden tower on the Alfred campus, was played publicly for the first time last week by Henry S. Wesson of Navasota, Tex., a carillonneur who studied with Director Denyn and, as U. S. representative of Michaux & Michaels, installed a carillon they cast for the Belgian...
Chimes of bells are limited to simple hymns and folk tunes, or unmelodic "change ringing" which is fairly common in the U. S.† The musical literature of the carillon is larger, although it, too, has its limitations. One of these is that each bell has four or more separate "partials" or overtones in addition to its fundamental note, and when these are not all in tune with each other as well as with those of other bells, a prodigious jangling results. Thus a carillonneur must often rearrange a composition to allow for discords in his family of bells. Nevertheless...