(Updated at 10:10 a.m.) Dutch artist Gijsbert Kok plays an instrument similar to an organ — except it controls bells instead of pipes. The instrument is called a carillon and Kok will be playing it ...

Lynnette Geary initially teaches students to play the carillon on a modified electric keyboard. But there is no way to replicate the real thing, manipulating wooden levers with both hands and feet to ...

Cast in Bronze, the carillon player who for years has been perhaps the most recognizable free performer at Musikfest, won't be returning to the festival this year. Played by Frank Dellapenna, the ...

Movies—been there. Festivals—done that. Trips to the beach—check. Now it’s time to get creative when planning family activities. Looking for something out of the ordinary? Why not pack up the gang and ...

It’s a most inaccessible musical instrument. To play it, Melissa Weidner climbs 14 stories up a stainless-steel spire. Flexing her fingers inside gloves, she navigates seven switchback ladders before ...

BYU Student Ariel Peterson is a carillonneur for the BYU Carillon Tower. Carillon players use the backs of their fists to hit each key (Natalie Stoker). The iconic BYU Centennial Carillon Tower has ...

It has been performed by Kanye West, William Shatner and the Muppets. It has been played on violins, slide whistles and ukuleles. The “Glee” gang put their stamp on it, as did members of the Carolina ...

Philadelphia is home to two of the oldest carillons in North America, but these ornate instruments made up of sets of bronze bells remain “hidden in plain sight” in their Germantown and Rittenhouse ...

It's not 76 trombones, but it's a dozen, and their players will sync with a 65-bell (thus making it a "grand") carillon at noon April 9 in Indiana University's arboretum. Globally, fewer than 30 ...

There are roughly 180 carillons — musical instruments made up of at least 23 bells that do not swing, but rather are struck by clappers to create music — in the United States and Canada, but only one ...