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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

DING, DONG, BELL. And kindly watch your phrasing. A pianist plays the piano. A flautist plays the flute — though as "The Music Man's" Meredith Willson once pointed out, he ought to play the flaut. And ...

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 ...

Harkness Tower and its loud bells are a mystery for most people at Yale. Although the campus hears the bells twice a day, much of what is going on inside the tower remains unknown. Given the recent ...

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, ...

DAYTON — Call it the world’s largest iPod. The 150-foot-high Deeds Carillon — Dayton’s most visible landmark — is being modernized to play any tune downloaded to a digital device the size of a VCR.