Carillon in Berlin-Tiergarten He demonstrates the instrument's playing technique and plays a carillon piece for his guests. Carillon in Berlin-Tiergarten The Carillon in Berlin-Tiergarten is located in a freestanding 42m-tall tower next to the House of World Cultures ("Haus der Kulturen der Welt"), near the Chancellery in the northeastern part of Berlin's central Tiergarten park. It is a large, manually played concert instrument, comprising 68 bells weighing a total of 48 metric tonnes (almost 106,000 lbs.) connected to a keyboard spanning 5½ fully chromatic octaves; the largest bell weighs 7.8 tonnes (almost 17,200 lbs.). The carillonneur sits in a playing cabin in the
A (musical note) A (musical note) La or A is the sixth note of the fixed-do solfège. Its enharmonic equivalents are B ("Heses") which is a diatonic semitone above A and G (Gisis) which is a diatonic semitone below A. "A" is generally used as a standard for tuning. When the orchestra tunes, the oboe plays an "A" and the rest of the instruments tune to match that pitch. Every string instrument in the orchestra has an A string, from which each player can tune the rest of their instrument. "A" is also used in combination with a number (e.g. A-440) to label