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Where Hundreds SJ? Perfectly Tuned Chimes Peal Forth \7peri9ted By Skilled Carillonneurs
In the past few years Ihurches in the United Jtnd Canada have installed lious Flemish musical in-)t that rings out its tunes the low countries of Behind Holland continually, illon. The carillon is not |e chime or peal, but an te arrangement of from Ithree to fifty-three large |ach perfectly attuned, on lelodies may be played Je most complete harmonic jitrapuntal accompaniment. |own, New Jersey, has just the installation of the c5ri&on on the American |nt, with thirty-five bells, lew York church expects la year to have one of fifty-lells. In Flanders the art >ell player, or carillonneur, \\y respected, and 60,000 often listen to concerts by the most famous ar-lere. one who has traveled the low countries of Hol-Jid Belgium will remember,
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especially in the latter nation, the cheer of the unending music ringing out through the air, the ceaseless playing of the great Flemish instrument, the carillon. Hundreds of these perfectly attuned sets of bells daily sound out their melodies throughout Flanders, some operating every few minutes by special mechanism, most being played by skilled carillonneurs.
Concerts by such famous carillonneurs as Josef Denyn, of Malines, who plays every Monday evening during the summer season from the great tower of St. Eombold's, attracts crowds proportionate to American prize fight and world series baseball throngs. Special trains carry thousands from towns nearby and far distant, and all traffic ctops in neighboring streets so that the people may listen without disturbance. Crowds of 60,000 or more throng the scene of the concert and listen with all respect and devotion to such examples of their national art.
Now this musical art is being transported to America and seems already to have gained a promising foothold upon this continent. Churches throughout the United States and Canda have installed or are arranging to install great sets of the ponderous bells, similar to those which excite the emotions of the Flemish people. Not only does America intend to adopt the art of the Low countries, bu there is every indication that it will be raised here to even greater heights and developed further than it has been even in Belgium, where the carillonneur has been held in such deep respect for hundreds of years.
Out in Morristown, New Jersey, there was finished this year the largest carillon on the American continent, equipped With thirty-five bells, the heaviest weighing 4,700 pounds. This is the largest carillon thus far to be constructed in the New World, but will in the near future be followed by many more of its dimensions and some larger.
The 4,700 pound bell at Morristown is a "C," and is followed by "D" and "E," the remaining bells proceeding upward chro-
matically for three octaves, every half tone being represented. Each bell is in perfect tune with itself in its own harmonics and in equally exact tune with every other bell. In fact, such perfectly attuned bells are not to be found elsewhere, even in the famous Dutch and Belgian carillons. European carillons are much heavier and larger, running frequently to four octaves, the lowest bell weighing eight tons, but those, like the Morristown bells, that come from the famous English foundry of John Taylor 1 at Loughborough, are far more i nearly perfect. After years of scientific experiment, the Taylor •oundry is able to produce bells tuned to the accuiacy of a single vibration.
Other carillons of note in the United States are to be found in Gloucester, Mass., (31 bells) ; in Andover, Mass., (30 bells) ; in Plainfield, N. J., (25 bells), and in Birmingham, Alabama (25 bells). Canada's largest carillon at the present time is that of the Metropolitan Methodist Church, Toronto, with 23 bells. All of these compare very favorably, if they do not surpass the Flemish bells in their perfection of tune, as they have been produced by modern science, while the European bells are in most cases hundreds of years old.
Anton Brees, the distinguished pupil of the great Denyn, and possibly even greater than his master, made a tour, of America recently, giving a number of recitals through the country. He gave six concerts at St. Peter's Church in Morristown alone upon the largest carillon outside of Europe. Frederick Rocke, the official carillonneur of the Jersey church, found in his playing a sign of the great progress America is making in adopting this art and an example to communities which have not yet been won over to the Flemish musical instrument.
'' His technical virtuosity,'' says Rocke, "was astonishing, but the
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