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Systems may also provide a keyboard or console. This allows a musician to operate the instrument in a manner similar to the way a traditional carillon is operated. These keyboards are sometimes integrated with or attached to an organist's console. Early automated carillons used electric timers that simply played selected bell strikes or tunes.
A carillonneur plays the 56-bell carillon of the Plummer Building, Rochester, Minnesota, US The 56-bell carillon of Saint Joseph's Oratory, Montreal, Quebec, Canada [1]. A carillon (US: / ˈ k ær ə l ɒ n / KARR-ə-lon, UK: / k ə ˈ r ɪ l j ən / kə-RIL-yən [2] [3]) is a pitched percussion instrument that is played with a keyboard and consists of at least 23 bells.
The Verdin Company began in 1842 when brothers Francis de Sales and Michael Verdin installed the first tower clock in the United States at Old St. Mary's Church in Cincinnati, Ohio. [2] [3] The Verdin Company has been a family business for over six generations. In 2001 they were known as the only mobile bell foundry in the world. [2]
Belmont: The William James Pharr Carillon in the First Presbyterian Church is a traditional carillon of 48 bells. The carillon was installed in 1984 and the bells were cast by the Royal Eijsbouts bell foundry. The smallest bell weighs 31 pounds, and the largest bell weighs 4,850 pounds.
Carillon Towers, main façade The Levache carillon The Witlockx carillon. The Mafra carillons constitute the largest carillon ensemble in the world. [1]Spanning two 50-metre-high (160 ft) towers in the Palace of Mafra, it features 120 bells, divided into carillon (45 bells in north tower, 53 in the south tower), liturgical and clock bells.
Bellfounding is the casting and tuning of large bronze bells in a foundry for use such as in churches, clock towers and public buildings, either to signify the time or an event, or as a musical carillon or chime. Large bells are made by casting bell metal in moulds designed for their intended musical pitches.