Show A MUSICAL ADVENTURE FOR AMERICA newspaper dispatches state that there is a plan afoot to have a notional national carillon at washington D C as a tribute to gotlie tile soldier dead contact with the alie mc men n and women of flinders flanders has american attention to one kind of music ital in the national lives of these people which cannot even be heard in this country A carillon Is made up of a set et of tower toner bells attuned to the intervals of 0 the chromatic scale usually covering a range of four octaves to attain such a I 1 range the bell producing the lo lowest Aest note must weigh several tons while the smallest weighs scarcely twenty pounds the alie bells are connected to a keyboard or to a clockwork mechanism which causes their clippers to strike producing music from the bells requires great skill and dexterity on the part of the bellmaster for lie must use his feet for the larger bells and the muscles of both his wrist and elbow ore are brought into piny in producing the effect usually gien g nan A fine carillon is not the result of a cliance chance molding of metal hut but its making Is as much an all achievement wrought by n 1 wise combination of excellent material and deep thought as a stradivarius varius lo lowers loters of carillon music compare thetodes the tones to those of a pianoforte in delicacy and to an organ in majesty when touched by the hand of a master like deayn the wizard of lla lines tile the music seems to come collie veritably from the heavens and to settle la in peace and benediction over the surrounding country from tile the even rows of red topped roots roofs and the trees of the surrounding le leel eel el spaces in malines the immense flat topped gothic spire ot of st rom item bauld once arose the cathedral dated from the thirteenth century and has for hundreds of bears ears beef known the world orld over for the remarkable silvery quality of its bells so much attention had been given to making it the best of its kind that its bell makers gained wide reputations and the town itself became the headquarters of bell founding the tower vast and mysterious against the luminous sky seemed to dominate the city while compelling the attention it stirred the imagination as it kept watch over malanes and tolled the passing of tile hours with will its hugest bell when not dot attached to the wonderful mechanism that controlled the ringing of the carillon tills this bell required eight men to ring it tile the range of the bells of at this carillon carl llou was great enough to admit of many diali cult operatic selections today tile the majestic tower mingles its lust dust will that of the ruined city over which it had for centuries guarded the carillon of antwerp posses possessed seI the greatest number of bells of any in fla flanders aders sixty fi alve ve it lins has beeri been said that from tile the cathedral catli edral tower on a clear morning ca caril rillous lons could be I 1 seen |