Jan 172009
![[carillon player]](http://saints.sqpn.com/wp-content/gallery/new-catholic-dictionary/carillon.jpg "90kb jpg photograph of a stained glass window showing the medieval, hand-operated fore-runner of the modern carillon, detail of medieval glass, Ely Cathedral's 14th-century Lady chapel; swiped with permission from the flickr account of Brother Lawrence Lew, OP")
French: kareyoli, chime, peal
A series of bells, sometimes as many as 60 and producing a complete chromatic scale, hung so that they may be played upon either by hand or machinery. Among the best-known in Europe are in the cathedrals of Antwerp, Ghent, Mechlin, Bruges, Worcester, and Dublin. The term is also applied to a small instrument, composed of bells and a pianoforte keyboard by which they are played, and to a tune chimed upon bells.