carillonneur

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The second, by carillonneur Larry Robinson, will mark Memorial Day at 4 p.m. May 25.

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  • The first, by carillonneur Ryan Hebert, will celebrate Mother's Day at 3 p.m. tomorrow. —  News for Richmond Times-Dispatch
  • The second, by carillonneur Larry Robinson, will mark Memorial Day at 4 p.m. May 25. —  News for Richmond Times-Dispatch
  • Flanders for a _Beiaardier_ -- a _Klokkenist_, as they call a carillonneur in the low countries .... —  Barbarians
  • The old carillonneur, Jean Courtray, began to speak in a low voice of his art, his profession, and of the great carillon of forty-six bells in the ancient tower of Sainte Lesse. —  Barbarians
  • These bells, rising tier above tier in a belfry, the smallest highest, the great, ponderous bells of the bass notes lowest, are not free to swing, but are fixed to huge beams, and are sounded by clappers connected by a wilderness of wires to a keyboard which is played upon by the bell-master or carillonneur. —  Barbarians
 

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  1. French, from carillon, carillon; see carillon.

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  1. French, < carillonner, v., < carillon, a carillon.
 

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/kɑrɪlɑnˈnər/
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