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 ...

Tin-Shi Tam, the university carillonneur and Cownie professor of music at Iowa State, has been playing the carillon for 30 years The Stanton Memorial Carillon is part of campus life at Iowa State ...

King of Prussia, Pa -- In the tower at Washington Memorial Chapel is an instrument called a carillon, it's like a piano but controls the chapel's bells. There are only 175 carillons in the United ...

Twice each day, the campus echoes with grand, melancholy music. And though we can probably all point to Rockefeller Chapel as the source, most of us know very little about the mysterious bells and ...

DURHAM, N.C. (AP) — When J. Samuel Hammond arrived as a freshman at Duke University in 1964, he knew nothing about the musical instrument that allowed a player to send melodies ringing across campus ...

Almost every weekday for nearly 100 years, the massive bells of the Mayo Clinic's carillon have rung in song from the tower of the Plummer Building in downtown Rochester. Now they can be heard around ...

As an organ is to a piano, so is a carillon to an ordinary set of bells. Numbering at least 24 (covering two octaves), the bells of a carillon are tuned with the sharps & flats of the chromatic scale, ...

The carillon house and bell tower in the Nan E. Elliott Memorial Rose Garden at Gordon F. Moore Community Park provide visual and audio appeal when local musicians perform as part of the free concert ...

Carillonneur Timothy Zerlang inside the Hoover Observation Deck & Carillon on the Stanford University campus in Palo Alto on June 29, 2024. Photo by Devin Roberts. Lots of people can claim to have a ...