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carillon (KAR-uh-luhn or (Brit.) kar-RIL-yuhn) - n., a set of chromatically tuned bells played by keyboard.
Often placed in a tower, and so sometimes an inhabitant of campaniles. The one I grew up closest to was in a cathedral tower, though, plus there was one in the zoo. They were developed in the Low Countries, but the name was adopted in 1775 from French, from of Old French quarregnon, from Medieval Latin quaterniōn-, set of four, from presumably their original size. Modern instruments are typically four octaves, not four bells, though they range from two to six octaves (the largest are 77 bells/notes).
---L.
Often placed in a tower, and so sometimes an inhabitant of campaniles. The one I grew up closest to was in a cathedral tower, though, plus there was one in the zoo. They were developed in the Low Countries, but the name was adopted in 1775 from French, from of Old French quarregnon, from Medieval Latin quaterniōn-, set of four, from presumably their original size. Modern instruments are typically four octaves, not four bells, though they range from two to six octaves (the largest are 77 bells/notes).
---L.
