Rockefeller Chapel Swinging Peal

The carillon consists of 72 bells total. When we play music, the bells are stationary. But five of the bells are able to swing, and that's what's happening here. We swing the bells for special occasions, such as weddings and graduation ceremonies.

[@doctorabutros]

I studied and worked on The University of Chicago campus for 25 years, and most every day I heard the carillon of Rockefeller Chapel and the change ringing of the bells of Mitchell Tower (awesome trebble bobbing!). Lord forgive me, but I took their beautiful and sonorous peels for granted. Now I have been away from the University for more than 25 years, and even until now, not a day goes by that I still don't miss the bells. Crescat scientia; vita excolatur!

[@Steven_Rowe]

The swingingq bells are part of the Carrilon and the heaviest bells are known as bourdon bells, they were cast by Gillett and Johnston of Croydon UK. They are harmonically tuned bells which is why they sound amazing. There is also 10 chiming bells which are hung dead, so ie dont swing, these were cast by the Whitechapel bell foundry of Londoon in 1908. However there is another peal of English Change ringing bells cast by Taylors of Loughborough in 2022

[@nurnbergerglockenfreund]

Wow! Amazing!

[@cainshaw4993]

Love it! Thank y’all for posting!

[@roycantu3565]

Beautiful peals!

[@michellehoward3369]

This is like Riverside Church in NYC

[@LoganLeGate-x4i]

They were both built roughly around the same time and are practically “sister” carillons. They both had associated themselves with the Rockefellers

[@schlag-ton3448]

Leider fehlt hier die zweitgrößte Glocke f°. / Unfortunately, the second largest bell f° is missing here.

[@TBS_Railfanner]

Could you record the inside of it, with the biggest bell swinging?

[@Steven_Rowe]

The carrilon bells were cast by Gillett and Johnstone of the UK.carrilon bells don't swing but are hit by a hammer, however the largest 5 bells do swing. They are known as Bourdon bells and the largest is over 16 tons. There are similar bells in Riverside church in Newyork,the heaviest bourdon is heavier Here is a video of them ringing. You will see the bells are counter balanced to make them ring slow, also the clappers are counterbalanced so they hit the correct side of the bell. The clapper hits the bell, where as if not counterbalanced the bell would hit the clapper. kzbin.info/www/bejne/iHXHe5SIYrGWqsksi=_dakG0ilG3HKn7LF

[@DjGoofy6968]

can you make a video of the peal inside? i really wanna see the bells peal

[@phillippatryndal4255]

Sometimes you take a youtube journey and end up at interesting videos... I used to live near Loughborough (England) which also has a carillon tower in Queen's Park as a war memorial, (with a museum inside). I've never managed to actually look inside it, though, (the museum's opening hours were very limited and I was rarely in the town when it was open). But why it started giving me links to videos about Carillon's like this I don't know :P

[@balazsvigh9758]

dresdner frauenkirche historische glocken klang