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At Washington’s Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception, carillonneur Robert Grogan has filled the sky ...
A massive and rare instrument with 49 enormous bells — some weighing 3,400 pounds — is tucked away in a grand bell ... tower ...
The wooden tower that originally contained the carillon bells was replaced in 1953 by an open ... The bells are hung stationary; only the clappers move. The clapper of each bell is connected by wires ...
The 151-foot carillon bell tower featuring 57 bells was built by Col. Edward Deeds, the automotive pioneer and former NCR chief, and his wife Edith Walton Deeds. Mrs. Deeds reportedly fell in love ...
A central Iowa town was one of three in the U.S. to be recognized by the Great American Main Street Awards. See how it's ...
In the fall of 2014, the old carillon bell system played for its final time. The system, which was over a decade old and had a life expectancy of approximately that, broke. It wasn’t until the fall of ...
The visiting musicians who put the century-old bell tower through its paces were from the Yale Guild of Carillonneurs, whose members perform twice daily on their campus carillon.