In 1876, Eugene Bowen graduated from Tufts College known by peers and faculty as the most prominent bell ringer of his class. Goddard Chapel had not yet been built, and a single bell rang atop Ballou ...

The carillon in Rockefeller Memorial Chapel is like a campus rumor you need to hear to believe. The Laura Spelman Rockefeller Memorial Carillon is composed of 72 bells, made of over 100 tons of bronze ...

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 ...

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 ...

What on earth is a carillonneur? Well, of course, it is someone who plays a carillon, which, of course, is a piano-like instrument that plays bells from the top of a bell tower. And at Belmont ...

Robin Austin, the Springfield Park District’s new carillonneur, was introduced to the behemoth musical instrument 20 years ago. “I learned very quickly that this wasn’t an easy instrument to play,” he ...

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 ...