Carillons

A carillon is a musical instrument that is typically housed in the bell tower (belfry) of a church or other municipal building. The instrument consists of at least 23 cast bronze, cup-shaped bells, which are serially played to produce a melody, or sounded together to play a chord. A traditional manual carillon is played by striking a keyboard — the stick-like keys of which are sometimes called batons — with the fists, and by pressing the keys of a pedal keyboard with the feet. The keys mechanically activate levers and wires that connect to metal clappers that strike the inside of the bells, allowing the performer on the bells, or carillonneur, to vary the intensity of the note according to the force applied to the key.

National War Memorial (New Zealand) (StreetView)
National War Memorial (New Zealand)

Storke Tower @ the University of California, Santa Barbara (Birds Eye)
Storke Tower @ the University of California, Santa Barbara
The Walter N. Maguire Memorial Carillon in Maguire Memorial Tower at First Presbyterian Church (Birds Eye)
The Walter N. Maguire Memorial Carillon in Maguire Memorial Tower at First Presbyterian Church

National Carillon, The (Birds Eye)
National Carillon, The

Netherlands Carillon at Arlington National Cemetery (Birds Eye)
Netherlands Carillon at Arlington National Cemetery

The Netherlands Carillon (StreetView)
The Netherlands Carillon
Century Tower (StreetView)
Century Tower

National Carillon (StreetView)
National Carillon
Memorial Bell Tower (StreetView)
Memorial Bell Tower

Carillon with figures (StreetView)
Carillon with figures

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