CARILLONS WILL
RING IN STATES
MIDNIGHT TONITE
NEW YORK, Dec. 31. (£>)—-The
carillion with clavier as an instru
ment in civic musical education has
(been pealing from singing towel's in
Continental Low Countries for hund
reds of years hut it has only lately
(become better known outside the
ibounderies of its origin.
The people of Belgium and Hol
land accepted the bells as a means
of cultivation and teaching a love
for folk-songs and the great melo
dies of their fatherland. The car
illon has shared its companionship
in all the stirring events in the his
tory of these countries, usually at
the public charge. In not a few of
the towers the carillon has been play
ed for a hundred years or more on
the same day and at the same hour.
While the United States has but
fifteen sets of the bells In operation
declares William Gorham Rice, who
has devoted a great part of his life
to the chronicling of carillons, it
nevertheless can boast of the larg
est In the world. He says no caril
lon built since the e&rliest Hemony
in 1645 compares in size with the
one installed in the Park Avenue
Baptist Church here by John D.
Rockefeller, jr., in memory of his
mother.
Rice describes the carillon as a
characteristic democratic municipal
music in a book published by Dodd,
Mead & Co. August Heckscher, New
York philanthropist, has offered to
present one of the instruments to the
city as a World Wlar memorial, if the
city will erect a tower in the middle
of Central Park in which to house
it.
The carillon had its origin in a
mechanical arrangement of sets of
small bells in connection with the
clocks which in the Fifteenth Cen
tury came to be an essential part
of the municipal towers of tho Low
countries. >t was not long before
the mechanism was arranged to play
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a little tune. More satisfactory mus
ical effects -were sought as the in
strument progressed. When a city
bought a carillon it was formally wel
comed by the burgomaster and peo
ple, and amid rejoicings the bells
were consecrated with elaborate cere
mony.
Tli bells are turned to th© inter
vals of the chromatic scale, the com
pass being three or more octaves.
Th© lowest bell is often imany tons
in weight with each succeeding bell
smaller so that in the highest oc
taves the weight of each bell is but
a few pounds. All the bells are hung
so as not to swing. They are con
nected with a keyboard iby which the
carillionneui (the musician) causes
the clapper to strike the inside of
the sound blow of the bell. Fre
quently there also is a clock mech
anism and a revolving drum which
causes a hammer to strike the sound
bow from the outside.
“The carillon is essentially chro
matic in its intervals, while the
chime is essentially diatonic,” says
Rice, in distinguishing between the
two instruments. “The chromatic
characteristic enables a master of a
carillon keyboard not only to play
the notes of a great variety of mu
sic, but to interpret its sentiment and
to produce effects wiiich are distinc
tive and peculiarly a property of
this instrument.
“That a carillon should be in tune
is of greater consequence than the
number of its bells, because thruout
virtually its entire compass the bells
progress by regular semitone or
chromatic intervals.”
The carillon is played automatical
ly or by a musician. The carillon
neur uses both hands and feet and
differs from organ pedaling in that
the heels are not used.
People unaccustomed to the sound
of many bells who cannot “follow'
the tune,” are told by Rice to “relax
and simply listen” and they will find
that the idiom of the bell music will
soon communicate itself with per
fect clarity.
The first modern carillon on the
American continent wms installed
at the Metropolitan Church, Tor
onto, Rice says, and the first in the
United States was in the Church of
Our Lady of Good Hope, at Glou
cester, Mass. Others are at Ando
ver and Cohasset, Mass.; Birming
ham, Ala ; Cranbrook and Detroit,
Mich.; Morristown, Plainfield and
Princeton, N. J.; St. Paul, Minn.;
Notre Dame, Ind., ami Philadelphia.
There are 184 of the instruments in
existence.
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