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   What does carillon mean?

   • Get a quick, free translation! CARILLON meaning: 1. (a tune played on) a set of bells, usually hung in a tower 2. (a tune played on) a set of bells…. Learn more.

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   What is a carillon in a church?

   • If you wake up in the morning to bells coming from a nearby church tower, the instrument that is being played is a carillon. A carillon is simply a set of bells in a tower. The Old French ancestor of this word is carignon. The car part of this word traces back to the Latin word for "four," so a carignon was a set of four bells.

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   Where did the carillon come from?

   • The origins of the carillon can be traced to the Low Countries —present-day Belgium, the Netherlands, and the French Netherlands —in the 16th century. The modern carillon was invented in 1644 when Jacob van Eyck and the Hemony brothers cast the first tuned carillon.

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   What is a traveling carillon?

   • Traveling or mobile carillons are those which are not housed in a tower. Instead, the bells and playing console are installed on a frame that allows it to be transported. These carillons have to be much lighter than their non-mobile counterparts. [ 146 ] Nora Johnston conceived the idea of a traveling carillon between 1933 and 1938.

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   What was a carillon in medieval times?

   • Women were still in cotton dresses and an ice-cream van, glad of the prolonged season, sounded its carillon as it passed them. He blinked and shook his head, regretting it instantly as it rang like a carillon. a small portable organ with arm-operated bellows popular in medieval times

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   Who owns a carillon?

   • Often housed in bell towers, carillons are usually owned by churches, universities, or municipalities. They can include an automatic system through which the time is announced and simple tunes are played throughout the day. Carillons come in many designs, weights, sizes, and sounds.

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   CARILLON definition: 1. (a tune played on) a set of bells, usually hung in a tower 2. (a tune played on) a set of bells…. Learn more.

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     CARILLON meaning: 1. (a tune played on) a set of bells,...

   • Znaczenie Carillon, Definicja W Cambridge English Dictionary

     carillon definicja: 1. (a tune played on) a set of bells,...

   • Carillon in Simplified Chinese

     carillon translate: （通常挂在钟楼上的）编钟；编钟乐曲. Learn more in the...

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     CARILLON translate: （通常掛在鐘樓上的）編鐘;編鐘樂曲. Learn more in the...

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   A carillon (US: / ˈkærəlɒn / KARR-ə-lon, UK: / kəˈrɪljən / kə-RIL-yən[2][3]) is a pitched percussion instrument that is played with a keyboard and consists of at least 23 bells. The bells are cast in bronze, hung in fixed suspension, and tuned in chromatic order so that they can be sounded harmoniously together.

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   1. a set of stationary bells hung in a tower and sounded by manual or pedal action, or by machinery. 2. a set of horizontal metal plates, struck by hammers, used in the modern orchestra.

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   1. a. : a set of fixed chromatically tuned bells sounded by hammers controlled from a keyboard. b. : an electronic instrument imitating a carillon. 2. : a composition for the carillon.

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   Carillon definition: a set of stationary bells hung in a tower and sounded by manual or pedal action, or by machinery.. See examples of CARILLON used in a sentence.

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   If you wake up in the morning to bells coming from a nearby church tower, the instrument that is being played is a carillon. A carillon is simply a set of bells in a tower. The Old French ancestor of this word is carignon.