#carillon

[copperproto]

my college has a huge bell tower and they gave me access to it

[fotobyandre]

Bad Ischl - Carillon / Kreuzplatz

[honourablejester]

Watching that North Sea/Hoist the Colours post again, a couple of the lines of that song caught me again: “The bell has been raised from its watery grave; can you hear its sepulchral tone?” And I just …

I really love bells? As an image. A symbol. Toll the Dead is my favourite 5e cantrip. In Pathfinder, my two favourite thaumaturge implements, just for theme, are lantern and bell. I have a homebrew forge god who has the bell as his main symbol. I just. I really love the imagery of bells.

Bells sound for funerals. Bells count the passing of hours. Bells warn of approaching danger. In a nautical setting, bells mean port and/or buoys declaring safe water. The ghostly bell ringing through the mist means death or home. Bells toll out your life. Bells toll out your death. Bells mark territory: the bells of the church mark the parish, the bells of the night watchman mark out the protected area. Fog buoys mark home channels. Given the history tangled up in the Catholic Church, bells also symbolised power and wealth (church/town bells and especially full carillons were not cheap, and the biggest, heaviest, most expensive bells were parish and municipal status symbols) while at the same time, because of the association with death and funerals, also symbolised ultimate equality. Bells symbolise victory and celebration, sounding for weddings as well as funerals. Bells mean a call, often a call to school or to church, or an alarm bell, but also a general summons.

The bell tolls. Sound the death knell. Ring out your great bells in victory. Oranges and lemons, say the bells of St Clements. One o’clock and all’s well!

Bells have such a lovely tangle of images attached. Death. The inevitable passage of time. Alarm. Warning. The delineation of safe places. Celebration. Wealth. Equality. Summons. There’s a lot to play with.

And just. At the base of it all, and calling back to Hoist the Colours above … there’s nothing quite like the ghostly, sepulchral toll of bell to mark the call, and the end. Heh.

I just. I really enjoy the symbolism of bells a lot.

[vox-anglosphere]

Dedication service for WWI Soldiers Memorial Tower - Toronto 1924

[tsukimagi]

Bonjour à tous~⭐

Aujourd’hui je termine enfin de vous présenter le dernier des stickers sur lequel j’ai travaillé l’année dernière ! 🦇

Je suis une très grande fan du jeu Okami, et un soir j’ai eu soudainement très envie de créer mon propre kami / divinité du pinceau chauve-souris et d’imaginer à quoi il ressemblerait dans le jeu…

Voici donc Fūrigami (de fūrin en japonais qui signifie carillon), le petit dieu du son ! 🎐 Je trouve ça assez rigolo que ce soit une chauve-souris bruyante, alors que ce sont des animaux au contraire très discrets ! J’imagine en jeu que l’on dessinerait la forme d’un carillon et que le son étourdirait certains ennemis~ 🎶

Qu’en pensez-vous ? Est-ce que vous connaissiez le jeu ? ❤️

[demonlordclayman]

[evenstarfalls]

Alright, so the @ultimateinstrumentpoll is starting soon and a few instruments I play are going to be part of the bracket, but there's one instrument in particular I wanted to spread some propaganda for. This is an instrument that a lot of y'all have probably never heard and even fewer have heard of, so I hope you'll take the time to hear about it.

Also, Megalovania—but we'll get to that!

The carillon is a set of bells played with a keyboard. Now, not just any bells qualfiy: to be considered a carillon there must be at least 23 bells and they must be tuned chromatically. And when I say keyboard, I'm not talking electronic.

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This is what the keyboard looks like. Those wires? Go straight up to the top, baby! (Not all carillons are in towers, but as a general rule, they are. Most of them are.) And we're not just talking small bells. We're also talking about giant, taller-than-a-person, weigh-multiple-tons bells!

They're also some of the heaviest instruments (cast bronze is heavy!) and, along with organs, have pedal keyboards. (Notes! Played by the feet!!)

Sounding pretty cool, right?

Maybe this recording of The Owl House theme will help convince you.

(yeah, i did crop myself mostly out but carillon is obscure enough this might still be a little doxxy. Oh well!)

Notice that you can hear the clacking of the keys, and that the keys are depressed using the whole hand. And as loud as it can get up in the playing cabin, you can't hear any of that outside, just the beautiful ringing of bells across the city. And if it looks like a workout... yeah it is.

Yes, carillons are quite loud. The best place to listen is outside and a bit of a ways away. You don't also get much of a choice? Have I taken advantage of this to rickroll my university? Of course I have! Of course I have! Isn't that cool?

Carillons are also quite rare as an instrument. They number in the hundreds, scattered around the world, although most are in the Low Countries of Europe (where carillons originated) and North America. With as rare as carillons and carillonneurs are, most people don't know about carillons and how cool they are. Doesn't that make you want to vote for them?

I know, I know. You're probably just learning about this instrument, and trying to decide whether you're really invested enough in this to vote for it. Would you like to hear Megalovania played on the carillon? Would that help? (I also did tell the tournament mod I'd share it and I'm a woman of my word.)

Unfortunately the only recording I have is not a particularly good one. Oh well!

...why yes I do have to arrange a lot of my own music.

One last thing to share, because this is also an informational session. If you'd like to learn more about the carillon, The Guild of Carillonneurs in North America is a good place to start. Their website has a lot of information about carillons, and a directory if you're curious whether there's one near you. A lot of carillonneurs do offer tours! The World Carillon Federation's website also has a list of carillons and member organizations worldwide.

When the polls open, remember to vote for the carillon!

This has been an infodump. Thank you for reading.

[catastrofeanotherme]

Come respiri e sospiri cosmici.

🎡🎠

[octahedral-chaos]

Welcome to OCTAfan's Obscure and Weird Musical Instrument Tournament!

This is a (albeit very late) Tournament dedicated to a select few instruments that are very, VERY weird. From the relatively tame pipe organ and steelpan, to the odd hurdy gurdy and theorbo, to the absolutely insane laser harp and musical saw! What's the weirdest instrument?

Tournament starts on the 22nd of June. Each poll lasts 24 hours and is released one day at a time.

ROUND 1

Hurdy gurdy vs Nyckelharpa

Theorbo vs Tonkori

Cristal Baschet vs Pipe Organ

Carnyx vs Cornu du Pomeii

Carillon vs Steelpan

Jaw Harp vs Musical Saw

Theremin vs Laser Harp

Sarangi vs Koto

ROUND 2

Hurdy gurdy vs theorbo

Cristal baschet vs carnyx

Carillon vs musical saw

Theremin vs sarangi

Round 3

Hurdy gurdy vs Cristal baschet

Musical Saw vs Theremin

Final Round

Cristal Baschet vs Musical Saw

[porcelainerose]

butterfly wind chime 𐦍༘⋆

by kilig_

[cantsayidont]

October-November 1950. Loath as I am to admit it, I'm with the Joker here — a march in 1950 was pretty corny, although in compensation, this story from WORLD'S FINEST COMICS #48 has an imaginative plot (with some of Bill Finger's most over-the-top narration) and an ingenious death trap involving a gigantic carillon:

The use of the musical notes and sound effects is clever, and makes this story feel all the more like something from the 1966 BATMAN TV show (it's easy to imagine William Dozier reading the narration), but Lew Sayre Schwartz, ghosting for Bob Kane during this period, doesn't have Dick Sprang's flair for giant props or elaborate scenery; the photo references are distractingly obvious and don't fit stylistically with the figure work. It seems like the artist also struggled a little with the script's unusual storytelling demands, especially in panels 3 and 4, where what Batman is doing with the board and the window is none too clear.

If Sprang had penciled this story, it might have been a classic, but alas, comics writers and artists of this period didn't have much say over who drew which script, and direct dialogue between writer and artist was generally rare at National-DC well into the 1970s.

[les-portes-du-sud]

Campanule carillon

[code-lyok0]

😭😭😭

[watchilove]

Speake Marin Minute Repeater Carillon

[throughthemeadowflowers]

Chicago Botanic Garden, April

[demonlordclayman]