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
UW’s new carillon is “a gorgeous instrument,” said carillonneur Wesley Arai, who has played 40 to 50 carillons around the country.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 5, 2018
For years Mr. Lind was the carillonneur for one of the others, the one at St. Martin’s Episcopal Church in Harlem, before he moved to Riverside in 2000.
From New York Times ● Mar. 22, 2015
The old carillonneur, Jean Courtray, began to speak in a low voice of his art, his profession, and of the great carillon of forty-six bells in the ancient tower of Sainte Lesse.
From Barbarians by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers
They are carillonneurs and the first part of any performance involves ascending a tall bell tower.
From Washington Post ● May 11, 2022
I have known some good carillonneurs who couldn't punch their way out of a wet paper bag.
From Time Magazine Archive
Emphasis on the musculature of the carillonneurs was such an error.
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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