A carillon is a musical instrument that is typically housed in the bell tower of a church or municipal building. The instrument consists of at least 23 cast bronze, cup-shaped bells, which are serially played to produce a melody, or sounded together to play a chord. A traditional manual carillon is played by striking a keyboard ? the stick-like keys of which are called batons ? with the fists, and by pressing the keys of a pedal keyboard with the feet. The keys mechanically activate levers and w...
