carillonneur
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carillonneurs
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Artists can take over and “play” billboards and the chapel like a carillonneur playing a carillon.
From New York Times ● Aug. 18, 2022
“I thought, ‘When I’m going to be the carillonneur, I’m going to change the repertoire so the people are going to look up.’
From Washington Post ● May 11, 2022
On Thursday, the instrument will be played by carillonneur Wesley Arai.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 4, 2018
If God inhabits the firmament, Mr. Lind’s workplace puts him closer to God than the ministers, the choir and the congregation at the Riverside Church, where he is the carillonneur.
From New York Times ● Mar. 22, 2015
"Eet ees ma name, mynheer—I am the carillonneur."
From The Best Psychic Stories by Various
They are carillonneurs and the first part of any performance involves ascending a tall bell tower.
From Washington Post ● May 11, 2022
Emphasis on the musculature of the carillonneurs was such an error.
From Time Magazine Archive
I have known some good carillonneurs who couldn't punch their way out of a wet paper bag.
From Time Magazine Archive
They are superb—nearly five hundred sweet-toned bells, and on of the best carillonneurs of Holland to play upon them.
From Hans Brinker; or, the Silver Skates by Mary Mapes Dodge
"Why, that is the name of the most celebrated of carillonneurs, Van den Gheyn of Louvain."
From The Best Psychic Stories by Various
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