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carillon (KAR-uh-lon, (Brit.) kuh-RIL-yuhn) - n., a set of chromatically tuned bells, usually played by a keyboard; a composition written or adapted for the same.
Bells, bells, bells. Often housed in a tower, such as in a church, and originally developed in the Low Countries. Also an organ stop with an effect similar to bells, an electronic instrument imitating the tower bells, an orchestral instrument with a similar sound, and a form of celesta or keyboard glockenspiel, which also has bells. Adopted in 1775 from French carillon, set of bells, from Old French car(e)ignon/quarregnon, from Vulgar Latin *quadriniōn-, a re-formation of Late Latin quaternion -- because presumably it originally referred to a set of four bells.
---L.
Bells, bells, bells. Often housed in a tower, such as in a church, and originally developed in the Low Countries. Also an organ stop with an effect similar to bells, an electronic instrument imitating the tower bells, an orchestral instrument with a similar sound, and a form of celesta or keyboard glockenspiel, which also has bells. Adopted in 1775 from French carillon, set of bells, from Old French car(e)ignon/quarregnon, from Vulgar Latin *quadriniōn-, a re-formation of Late Latin quaternion -- because presumably it originally referred to a set of four bells.
---L.
