carillonneur
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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
The carillonneur sits underneath the bells, in a small, glassed-in cabin that houses the upright-piano-sized part of the instrument, and plays it by depressing wooden batons and foot pedals.
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
"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
"Why, that is the name of the most celebrated of carillonneurs, Van den Gheyn of Louvain."
From The Best Psychic Stories by Various
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 Dodge, Mary Mapes
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