Word: carillons
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...Mariemont, Ohio one day last week, Mayor E. Boyd Jordan mounted the 100-ft. tower of the town carillon and entered the tiny clavier room. He loosened his collar and tie, rolled up his sleeves. He rubbed his arms and hands with alcohol, fastened leather guards over his hands, sat down at the keyboard and started pummeling its projecting levers, stamping on its pedals. Above him in the belfry, 23 tuned bells chimed out a program of folk tunes, hymns, a classical number or two. The annual congress of the Guild of Carillonneurs of North America was in town...
...happened in the middle of Sunday's carillon concert in the Lowell House tower. Gordon Campbell, House tutor, and recently appointed House bell-ringer, was working to a grand climax in one of his Muscovite bell symphonies. Suddenly, one of the chains securing the bells snapped. Campbell went on until another chain snapped. Then a third went, and more after that. A minute later, only three quarters of the 18 bells remained playable...
...first man, a Russian named Saradjeff, came with the carillon when it was originally brought from Russia. But he did not take to American life, and thought that someone was trying to poison him when he had to eat House food. After Saradjeff had drunk a bottle of ink and spent a brief period of recuperation in Stillman, he went back to Russia, and for a long time the bells were silent...
...page manuscript, sent up by Calvin Coolidge the day before he left the White House in 1929. It was the stenographic record of his twice-weekly tilting with reporters in press conference.*Sample bout: on Dec. 11, 1928, he outlined-his plans to attend the dedication of the carillon at the Edward Bok bird sanctuary in Florida. To one reporter, unable to understand the plans for the bell tower, Coolidge snapped: "Mr. Bok is giving the bird sanctuary as a tract of land at this place. He is dedicating it as a bird sanctuary, and putting up these bells...
Another feature which Lowell is proud of is its carillon bells. An anecdote that Perkins is fond of telling concerns the mysterious silence of these bells. The seventeen-bell, carillon came from Russia complete with an expert, who started to perform immediately...