Halsted’s gift is a physical reminder of her ongoing generosity to all things carillon at UCSB, where she’s not only the instrument’s principal player, but also its primary caretaker.

The carillon is a pitched percussion instrument, usually a set of bells arranged in chromatic sequence, played with a keyboard that is similar to a piano. Carillonists strike the keys with half-closed ...

The carillon — a set of chromatically tuned bells usually housed in the tower of a church or institutional building — is arguably the least accessible musical instrument. Its sounds may be ubiquitous, ...

The carillon instrument itself turned 500 years old in 2015, but women have only been involved in bellringing for about the last century. Even so, at the 2019 Guild of Carillonneurs in North America ...

The first tuned carillon was installed in 1652 in Zutphen, the Netherlands. A carillon has at least 23 bells. Instruments with fewer bells are called chimes.

Since 1928, when a carillon was installed atop the Plummer Building, downtown Rochester listeners have been treated to near-daily concerts from this musical instrument made of bells. But the ...

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 ...

The carilloners performing at the Rees International Carillon Competition in Springfield's Washington Park on Saturday night are heard but not seen.

Colston explains that one key difference between the carillon and any typical instrument is that the music does not come from the carillon itself but from the bells above.

If you’ve visited Carillon Park this summer, your ears have gotten a treat with not only the bells but also the Carillon Park Concert Band. The best of the best ...

Looking more like a computer cabinet than a musical instrument, the courthouse carillon operates like a player piano, with rolls of perforated paper that the mechanism reads to produce musical ...