When you think “church bell ringer,” you might think of the hunchback Quasimodo of fiction and film. The modern bell ringer doesn’t swing from ropes, but rather plays a keyboard made of wooden keys ...

It was a beautiful Wednesday morning at the University of Kansas and the chimes inside the school's Campanile rang out "Ode to Joy" across the lush campus. And then they started clanking, an odd ...

GARDEN GROVE – Melissa Weidner plays the most inaccessible instrument in all of Orange County. She puts on black gloves. She throws a backpack, with thin-soled organist’s shoes in it, over her ...

Levi Kelley climbs a ladder to play the carillon in the tower. He has been playing for two years. (Jonas Wright) Every day, a few BYU students go up the tower next to the Bean Museum to do their job — ...

The sound of carillon bells has been very much a part of Alfred University for more than seven decades. When classes are in session, the carillon is played four times a week, and during the summer ...

The 120-foot Campanile, contains the 53-bell carillon and was dedicated on May 27, 1951, and rededicated on April 26, 1996, following an extensive renovation. Elizabeth Egbert Berghout, is the Kansas ...

Explore the history, significance, and mesmerizing performances of the Netherlands Carillon. Step into the enchanting world of the Netherlands Carillon, a stunning 127-ton bell structure in Arlington, ...

What on earth is a carillonneur? Well, of course, it is someone who plays a carillon, which, of course, is a piano-like instrument that plays bells from the top of a bell tower. And at Belmont ...

The carillon, man. The carillon. It’s what all the cool kids are playing these days. It’s replaced the melodica as the current quirky musical flavor of the month. But this instrument is a bit more ...

Every day at 5 p.m., rich melodies roll over the lawns of West Campus, washing over the masses typing on laptops at tables in the Bryan Center plaza all the way to students tossing frisbees in the ...