Thomas Rees Memorial Carillon in Springfield's Washington Park Credit: Ryan Smith It can be lonely at the top—and it almost always is at the top of the monolithic musical instruments known as ...

In 1876, Eugene Bowen graduated from Tufts College known by peers and faculty as the most prominent bell ringer of his class.

As a parent with 5-year-old twins in Linn-Benton Community College’s cooperative preschool in Corvallis, Mark Miller is always on the lookout for good field trip opportunities. So when he learned ...

Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Click to email a link to a friend (Opens in new window) Click to print (Opens in new window) Click to share on X (Opens in new window) Rising 175 feet ...

In 1953, a colossal musical instrument called a carillon — made up of 47 bells and collectively weighing 12 tons — made a journey via ship from Holland, through the Panama Canal to Seattle and ...

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 ...

The Princeton University carillon is mammoth, even by the standards of the largest family of musical instruments in the world. Carillons, a group of no fewer than 23 bells typically housed in a tower ...

During eight Sundays of the summer, the Cohasset Common and village is turned into a concert hall where the sounds of 57 bells high above the village play some of the most beautiful music anywhere.

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 ...

Lynnette Geary initially teaches students to play the carillon on a modified electric keyboard. But there is no way to replicate the real thing, manipulating wooden levers with both hands and feet to ...

A summer festival celebrating the sound of the carillon, a large musical instrument made of cast bronze bells, kicks off on Friday in the northern Polish city of Gdańsk. Carillon player Monika ...