Word: zvon
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...most famous bells in the college are rarely heard these days. The seventeen-bell Russian carillon, or zvon, which hangs in the tower of Lowell House was the gift of Charles R. Crane. It was brought from the USSR in 1931, accompanied by a carillon expert who started to perform immediately. Since the architects who designed Lowell House had not counted on a zvon, the seventeen iron lungs shook and reverberated through the new structure so much that the residents, now known as Bellboys, erupted into the courtyard, banging pots and pans every time the expert let go. The musician...
Sexton's Allen's muscles, the complicated cogwheel-and-weight contraptions in Memorial Hall and St. Paul's, an occasional guest zvon player, and the many other church sextons who save their art for Sunday mornings, all combine to make Cambridge a boom town, campanologically speaking...
...Russian bells, or zvon, are a delight to lovers of carillon music. Back in 1931, a Russian expert was sent along with the bells to aid in their intallation. A suspicious man, he was continually afraid that his food was being poisoned. After a minor illness he was finally shipped back to the U.S.S.R. when a Stillman nurse discovered him drinking a bottle of ink for breakfast...
...first nobody could be found to play the bells in saradjeff's absence, but soon they began to toll again, this time under the hands of two professor from Columbia and Smith. In addition, Mason Hammond '25, associate professor of Classica and History, displayed his talents on the zvon when special occasions warranted an extra ringing...
...first the Zvon were played every Sunday afternoon at 3 o'clock, but whom too many students complained that the pealing drowned out the concert of the New york Philharmonic, the time was changed. After making sure that the masses at St. Paul's Church were over by 12:30 o'clock, Professor Coolidge decided upon that hour...