THE MICHIGAN DAILY
THURSDAY, JANUARY
17, 1920,
Construction Of Carillon For Proposed Burton Campanili
Is Explained As Intricate And Expensive Process By
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CARILLON SIMILAR TO INSTRUMENT WHICH WILL
BE INSTALLED IN BURTON MEMORIAL CAMPANILE
all the classes which were at the of the campanile project, accord-
University during the regime of ing to Professor Moore, to make it
President Burton have banded to- entirely a student proposition!
gether to secure the necessary eventually. The funds are to be
funds for the purchase and in-,I secured by former students who!
stallation of the carillon. They are now active in the alumni
have set a maximum goal of one body. An attempt is to be made
hundred thousand dollars and ex- to get students to write the pieces
pect the carillon to, cost about to be played on the instrument at
eighty thousand dollars, installed. concerts which will be arranged.
It is possible to procure entire ca- And it is even hoped that event-!
rillons of- forty-eight bells 'or more ually a corps of student carillon-
for much less money but they will eurs, which is what the players of
be higher pitched and will not 1 the instrument are called, will be
contain as rich tones as the developed to devote fifteen minute
deeper ones. Sometimes a single periods jluring the school year in
large bell will cost ten thousand presenting programs of carillon
dollars because of the tremendous music.
amount of metal used. Persons unacquainted with ca-
To Be Entirely By Students rillon tones have complained that
It is the dream of the promoters Ithe bells will create a disturbance
with their loud ringing but ac-
cording to Professor Moore there
is no need for fear in that direc-
tion because perfectly tuned bells
like the ones which will be bought
from one of the two English firms
can not be heard at a distance of
more than a half mile from the
bell tower, which means that
there will be very few places off
the campus where the carillon will
be heard. This mistaken idea has
arisen from comparisons between
a true carillon and the many
poorly tuned bells which are
sounded in c h u r c h towers
throughout this country, Profes-
sor Moore explained.
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This is a carillon of forty-eight bells ready for installation in a bell tower. It is very similar to the
instrument which is to be purchased and installed in the Burton Memorial Campanile, by the alumni
classes which attended the University during the pr esidency of the late Marion LeRoy Burton, in whose
honor the project has been created.
ENGULFING A NATION!
who attended, a concert in Lough-
borough, where one of the foun-
dries now producing perfect bells
is situated, says that the music is
more than impressive, that it is
deep and spiritual, and that it pro-
duces a more profound feeling
than a church sermon. "Its mem-
ory lingers longer than the words
of any speaker that I have ever
heard," he adds, "and after hav-
ing heard my first concert I re-
mained in Loughborough almost
two weeks longer than I had origi-1
nally planned to hear two, more
demonstrations. The listeners re-
tired to the homes of people liv-
ing in the vicinity, usually about
a half mile from the bell tower,
and listened to the program
which usually lasted about fifteen
minutes at the most becausetof
the strenuous physical exertion
required to play the instrument."
Professor Moore, who has studied
carillons throughout Europe is a
member of the purchasing com-
mittee which has been chosen by
the classes of '21 to '28 to buy
the carillon to be installed here.
Bok Owns Notable Set
There are a few notable caril-
lons in this country, the most fa-
mous of which has been bought
by Edward Bok and placedgin a
beautiful tract of land in Florida
called the Bird Sanctuary. This
sanctuary has been created by Mr.
Bok as a bird reservation and he
has built a bell tower there and
installed a carillon which is con-
sidered oneeof the most melodious
in existence.
Plans have not yet been adopted Marion LeRoy Burton, but the
for the campaign for the bell University of Michigan club of
tower itself which is to be called Ann Arbor which has undertaken
the Burton Memorial Campanile this project will soon announce its
in memory of the late President organization. In the meantime,
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