Word: carrilloneur
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...discovered, among other things, that every good musical bell should have five distinct tones, all in harmony, and he has also found that the lower the tone of the bell, the more difficult to distinguish the different tones. Now the Vagabond makes no claim to being a carrilloneur, but he can hear a quantity of quite superfluous tones in the bass bell of Lowell House. And since there are five tones to each bell and there are nineteen bells, that would make ninety-five tones if the bells were perfectly tuned; but since they don't seem to be properly...
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