Show 0 A 1 41 xa I 1 A t are oil S vt 0 ear st Rom bolds singing to tower malanes Mall nes prepared ared by the national clety washl agton D C UK HE dedication by president tor coolidge recently of a carillon or tower of bells in florida ceh centers attention on oil these sources ot of music a and n d on the region in which they were developed a strip of lanil land ehlt extends from the north th sea beores inward for 50 miles or more in plains phalna which are largely just above high 11 title tide on every side one sees scores 0 ot cities towns and villages in foreground these are clearly defined but in the middle till d die distance they become a less distinct and on the horizon in Iri soft and misty outline they almost disappear in ili every such extended view above town hall and city gate anti ancient church rises dominant here a rugged tower there a tall belfry or it graceful slender spire and each of these skyward soaring structures becomes for the traveler a singing tower if on no nearer aber approach he finds it crowned with lh that majestic instrument of music called callea a caril carillon ron the word ca carillon rallon brou prou pronounced bounced car ilon I lon ion with the 0 o as in ill atom and the derivative earl llon neur 11 anre re french in origin but now generally accepted in E landing at rotterdam one the tower of st SL lawrences laurences Lawren ces church choso whoso old bells make not merely a great musical instrument but by bv their melodies express the spirit of the country over which they sound the traveler should mount the circular stone stairway leading to the heights of tower after tower to see bee the bells of carillons caril lons in all their benu ty of decoration find and arjang arrangement ef lie ile finds himself among a great company of bells fixed taxed upon a heavy framework and extending in parallel rows tier her above tier completely aliling the great tower room bells ranged in tiers the little bells hang in the highest liest tier the big bells just clear the floor the intermediate sizes hang in tiers between the largest bell of 0 nil fill Is taller than a tall man inan slid and it may weigh four five fire or even six or eight tons the smallest hell bell has a height of 10 or 12 inches only and perhaps a weight of loss less than 20 pounds soon it Is realized however that of greater consequence than nun ibor or size or weight Is the pitch relationship of the bells for the bells of a carillon always progress by regular semitone or chromatic intervals the eat carillon ilion of st lawrences laurences Lawren ces tower has chest intervals complete through more than three octaves except that the two lowest semitones semi tones are lacking the arrangement and character of the bells first attract the observers attention then lie he begins ti to study bow the lie music Is P produced rod lie ile soon discovers that a carillon Is played in two ways first automatically by a revolving barrel barm connected with a tower clock itell starts the music at the hour the half hour and at the quarters and sometimes om t mes even at the eighths eight hs second by a tre trained filed musician a seated tit at a keyboard board like that of an organ six and even more notes can be struck in chords on the carillon keyboard find so delicate are the adjustments that sustaining tones on the lighter bells are easily accomplished by tren iolando 1 automatic of simple folk i songs chiefly on the light bells with now and then the addition of a deep bass tone Is what the traveler constantly hears as he wanders through old towns in belgium and 11 holland olland tile the tower of st lawrences laurences Lawren ces clerch was begun in 1449 and the city placed a en carillon rillon in it in 1600 in tile the tower of tile the rotterdam bourse Is a smaller mailer carillon of 27 bells also more than t two wo find and a half centuries old A third carillon in rotterdam has just been placed in HIP new elty city hall it Is larger both in and tn in number of bells than any carillon made in tile the last years cities own the carillons Caril Carli lons dams dains three singing towers rising one above the city hall one neove the bourse and one above the church of st Ln lawrence wrence gives one a clew to the variety of f structures which may possess bosses ss a carillon and further invest gallon shows that st similar nillar musk music has floated boated for more than two ceo cen over uie the city gate at Eni thul zen me royal malnee tit at Amster amsterdam lam ohp weigh house at AIL monr the i bull ball at cypres ypres destroyed dur i ing the world wari war the university library at ghent the wine house at zutphen burned in 1921 and tile the abbey at middelburg find and that the spires of not a few of the historic churches of the low lew countr countries Jes sire ara singing towers finally one discovers the important fact that wherever a carillon hangs its bells are owned by the city its Is oil an official chosen by city authority and tho the tower itself Is under city control at af delft the carIll carillon Is in the spire of the new church called new though over four hundred years old because it was begun a century later than the old church nearby here far above us are to be seen nearly four octaves of bolls bells ranged in rows above find and on both sides of the dial of the tower clock by making the hague his center a tra eIer can easily reach every part bf hollands carillon region in day journeys one morning the trip may be to gouda there in ili the great church one may see the wonderful sixteenth century glass windows the finest in holland abounding in glorious color allegorical desi design gif and ill historic interest and listen as the carillon plays far above only half an hour from the hague Is leiden where the singing tower crowns the low and very beautiful town hall the pilgrims who after leaving england Cn gland lived for a time fit at leiden undoubtedly heard this music for the city has had a carillon since 1578 twenty five miles beyond leiden Is haarlem there the carillon Is in the tower of the old church famous for its organ and models of 0 hig historic ships suspended high in the groined arches of tho the belling bellin cel ling 9 Amster amsterdam da m the commercial capital of holland Is first among present day cities in vie the number of singing towers it possesses the royal koyal palace the old mint tower the museum find and the aulder the west and tho the old church arpir spires es nil all haye have car carillons caril lons st Rom Is best of most glorious of till all the singing towers Is eliat makh rises above st SL rpm holds bolds noble cathedral fit at malanes A few years ago malanea celebrated the anniversary of the 21 years of service of the distinguished josef deayn labe the pari pad of the carillon ancient guilds with superb banners and modern societies of every kind bind marched in the procession thousands of people filled the old oid streets houses and public buildings everywhere were gaily decorated this impressive pageant was the beginning of events which filled four days during which came the inauguration augu ration tion of the school of carillon carillosa Cari lloa instruction free to all the world the meeting of the first Caril carillon loh congress ever assembled tile the opening of the exposition of carillon art lasting through september and the playing of visiting from france holland find and belgium on sunday noon in the crowded town hall the burgomaster presented to deayn a gold medal from the city and there the american ambas ambassador to belgium spoke malanes Is midway between antwerp and brues brussels els and distant only halt n hour from froin each so that that multitudes from both these cities attend its carillon concerts many have gane gone also from much greater distances in IB europe and from all parts parta of the world A program of the music to t be played at each concert Is published months in advance and while the great muster master plays all Is quiet even in tile the grand place in the world today are odd ca dillons ril lons of these are in Bel gluts and the Nether netherlands londs the rest resi are scattered in other parts of europe the united states find canada |