carillon
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carillon,
in music: see bellbell,in music, a percussion instrument consisting of a hollow metal vessel, often cup-shaped with an outward-flaring rim, damped at one end and set into vibration by a blow from a clapper within or from a hammer without.
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carillon
[′kär·ə‚län] (engineering)
A musical instrument played from a keyboard with two or more full chromatic octaves of fine bells shaped for homogeneity of timbre.
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carillon
1. A bell tower; a campanile.
2. A set of fixed bells, usually hung in a tower and struck by hammers.
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carillon
Music1. a set of bells usually hung in a tower and played either by keys and pedals or mechanically
2. a tune played on such bells
3. an organ stop giving the effect of a bell
4. a form of celesta or keyboard glockenspiel
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