carillon

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Charles Semowich, who plays the carillon inside the 392-foot tower at Riverside Church, said he hears occasional screeching outside his window.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 3, 2024

Artists can take over and “play” billboards and the chapel like a carillonneur playing a carillon.

From New York Times • Aug. 18, 2022

He decided he wanted to study all of the keyboard instruments: piano, organ, harpsichord, synthesizer … carillon.

From Washington Post • May 11, 2022

The bells were part of a carillon that accompanied chants inside the church, said Franciscan friar Father Stephane, the Custody's liturgist.

From Reuters • Dec. 21, 2021

The carillon tunes, he told me, were altered every year or so, and to do this required the entire changing of the small brass pegs in the cylinders, a most formidable task, I thought.

From Vanished towers and chimes of Flanders by Edwards, George Wharton