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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

LAKE WALES, Fla. — If you’ve been to Bok Tower Gardens, then you couldn’t miss the Bok Tower itself. Built in the 1920s, it was the heaviest musical instrument at that time. Only four people have ever ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook The chimes start ringing, 120 feet above, just as the heavy doors shut behind me. Underfoot, the ...

MERCERSBURG >> "Unlike a piano recital, where people sit and listen, a carillon concert allows people to walk around and talk," said James Brinson, carillonneur at Mercersburg Academy. "The majority ...