Bell vs. Carillon — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Bell and Carillon
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Bell
A bell is a directly struck idiophone percussion instrument. Most bells have the shape of a hollow cup that when struck vibrates in a single strong strike tone, with its sides forming an efficient resonator.
Carillon
A carillon (US: CARE-ə-lon or UK: kə-RILL-yən;) is a pitched percussion instrument that is played with a keyboard and consists of at least 23 cast bronze bells in fixed suspension and tuned in chromatic order so that they can be sounded harmoniously together. Often housed in bell towers, carillons are usually owned by churches, universities, or municipalities.
Bell
A hollow metal musical instrument, usually cup-shaped with a flared opening, that emits a metallic tone when struck.
Carillon
A stationary set of chromatically tuned bells in a tower, usually played from a keyboard.
Bell
The round, flared opening of a wind instrument at the opposite end from the mouthpiece.
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Carillon
A composition written or arranged for these bells.
Bell
Bells A percussion instrument consisting of metal tubes or bars that emit tones when struck.
Carillon
To play a carillon.
Bell
A hollow, usually inverted vessel, such as one used for diving deep below the surface of a body of water.
Carillon
(musical instrument) A set of bells, often in a bell tower, sometimes operated by means of a keyboard (manual or pedal), originating from the Low Countries.
Bell
The corolla of a flower
"In a cowslip's bell I lie" (Shakespeare).
Carillon
A tune adapted to be played by musical bells.
Bell
The body of a jellyfish.
Carillon
To play a carillon.
Bell
A stroke on a hollow metal instrument to mark the hour.
Carillon
To ring out like a carillon.
Bell
The time indicated by the striking of this instrument, divided into half hours.
Carillon
A chime of bells diatonically tuned, played by clockwork or by finger keys.
Bell
The bellowing or baying cry of certain animals, such as a deer in rut or a beagle on the hunt.
Carillon
A tune adapted to be played by musical bells.
Bell
To put a bell on.
Carillon
Set of bells hung in a bell tower
Bell
To cause to flare like a bell.
Carillon
Playing a set of bells that are (usually) hung in a tower
Bell
To assume the form of a bell; flare.
Bell
To utter long, deep, resonant sounds; bellow.
Bell
A percussive instrument made of metal or other hard material, typically but not always in the shape of an inverted cup with a flared rim, which resonates when struck.
Bell
An instrument that emits a ringing sound, situated on a bicycle's handlebar and used by the cyclist to warn of his or her presence.
Bell
The sounding of a bell as a signal.
Bell
A telephone call.
I’ll give you a bell later.
Bell
A signal at a school that tells the students when a class is starting or ending.
Bell
(music) The flared end of a brass or woodwind instrument.
Bell
(nautical) Any of a series of strokes on a bell (or similar), struck every half hour to indicate the time (within a four hour watch)
Bell
The flared end of a pipe, designed to mate with a narrow spigot.
Bell
(computing) The bell character.
Bell
Anything shaped like a bell, such as the cup or corolla of a flower.
Bell
(architecture) The part of the capital of a column included between the abacus and neck molding; also used for the naked core of nearly cylindrical shape, assumed to exist within the leafage of a capital.
Bell
A bubble.
Bell
The bellow or bay of certain animals, such as a hound on the hunt or a stag in rut.
Bell
(transitive) To attach a bell to.
Who will bell the cat?
Bell
(transitive) To shape so that it flares out like a bell.
To bell a tube
Bell
To telephone.
Bell
(intransitive) To develop bells or corollas; to take the form of a bell; to blossom.
Hops bell.
Bell
(intransitive) To bellow or roar.
Bell
(transitive) To utter in a loud manner; to thunder forth.
Bell
A hollow metallic vessel, usually shaped somewhat like a cup with a flaring mouth, containing a clapper or tongue, and giving forth a ringing sound on being struck.
Bell
A hollow perforated sphere of metal containing a loose ball which causes it to sound when moved.
Bell
Anything in the form of a bell, as the cup or corol of a flower.
Bell
That part of the capital of a column included between the abacus and neck molding; also used for the naked core of nearly cylindrical shape, assumed to exist within the leafage of a capital.
Bell
The strikes of the bell which mark the time; or the time so designated.
Bell
To put a bell upon; as, to bell the cat.
Bell
To make bell-mouthed; as, to bell a tube.
Bell
To develop bells or corollas; to take the form of a bell; to blossom; as, hops bell.
Bell
To utter by bellowing.
Bell
To call or bellow, as the deer in rutting time; to make a bellowing sound; to roar.
As loud as belleth wind in hell.
The wild buck bells from ferny brake.
Bell
A hollow device made of metal that makes a ringing sound when struck
Bell
A push button at an outer door that gives a ringing or buzzing signal when pushed
Bell
The sound of a bell being struck;
Saved by the bell
She heard the distant toll of church bells
Bell
(nautical) each of the eight half-hour units of nautical time signaled by strokes of a ship's bell; eight bells signals 4:00, 8:00, or 12:00 o'clock, either a.m. or p.m.
Bell
The shape of a bell
Bell
A phonetician and father of Alexander Graham Bell (1819-1905)
Bell
English painter; sister of Virginia Woolf; prominent member of the Bloomsbury Group (1879-1961)
Bell
United States inventor (born in Scotland) of the telephone (1847-1922)
Bell
A percussion instrument consisting of vertical metal tubes of different lengths that are struck with a hammer
Bell
The flared opening of a tubular device
Bell
Attach a bell to;
Bell cows
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