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 ...

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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 ...

UChicago’s Guild of Carillonists uphold the legacy of the world’s “de facto biggest instrument,” playing songs spanning from Errol Garner to Chappell Roan.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

For 13 years, Naperville has been home to a musical instrument found in only 650 places in the world — the carillon. A map showing where the bell-tower instruments are located would center on the ...

At Washington’s Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception, carillonneur Robert Grogan has filled the sky with music after Mass for decades — a resounding echo of Easter joy. Robert ...

In 1876, Eugene Bowen graduated from Tufts College known by peers and faculty as the most prominent bell ringer of his class. Goddard Chapel had not yet been built, and a single bell rang atop Ballou ...

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 ...

Robin Austin, the Springfield Park District’s new carillonneur, was introduced to the behemoth musical instrument 20 years ago. “I learned very quickly that this wasn’t an easy instrument to play,” he ...