| Show america leads world in use of towers T O has more carillons Caril lons in ser service rice than any other country washington D C add memory bells to poes poetic list of sleigh s beigh bells wedding bells funeral bells alarum bells and assorted tinion tintin tabulations nabu lations completion of the northcott memorial singing tower in in luray va will add one more instance of a memorial function in the united states for mass bell ringing which all began back in the netherlands as alarm and time signals the luray carillon is the second in virginia the other being a world W orld chimes may have from four to a dozen tones and lack the more precise tuning of carillon bells small bells sometimes in pairs for double volume take care of high tinkling notes and large ones running into real tonnage look after th the e heavy booming of luraye 47 bells the smallest soprano weighs 10 pounds the big bass four tons A real giant however is the 20 ton bass in new york city probably the largest singing bell in the world the united states now has the largest carillons caril lons in the world average number in the battalion of bells composing the american carillon is about 42 but the riverside church in new york city has 72 bells to shower their ringing notes down into the nearby canyons of apartment houses whenever traffic lulls permit audibility the same number of bells peal across the campus of the university of chicago one less is contained in the bell chorus of the bok singing tower of mountain lake fla where concerts float down from the sky to drown out bird songs of the surrounding wildlife wild life sanctuary next in number to these three mammoth bell regiments is the richmond carillon with 66 bronze throats to join in the mechanical song also numb numbering ering over 60 bells are the carillons caril lons of cranbrook mich the methodist church tower of philadelphia the scottish rite cathedral of indianapolis and the trinity church of springfield mass massachusetts leads massachusetts is the ring ingest state in the union with seven caril aril lons ions according to the most complete bell census the first in the nation the singing tower of the church of our lady of good voyage in gloucester still rings out the de parting fisherman and rings in his return in addition to the giant carillon springfield has a smaller platoon of bells at hillcrest the academic air of 0 andover res resounds with the chiming melodies of phillips academy carillon cohasset cohassey Co hasset wellesley and norwood also have singing towers like andover which had the first school carillon and wel wellesley lesley some of the other institutions with bell songs to speed the parting study hour are princeton the university of michigan and the university of wisconsin duke university at durham N C the mercersburg Mercers burg academy of mercersburg Mercers burg pa trinity college in hartford conn and the ward belmont school in nashville tenn the iowa state agricultural college of ames iowa has converted an old set of chimes into a carillon small alfred university of alfred N Y has assembled a set of fine old bells from seventeenth and eighteenth century caril lons ions of the netherlands the state agricultural college in storrs conn has a carillon housed in a local church spire A carillon in a hospital is an unusual feature of rochester minn |
