Handbells have been around for centuries. Originally invented for church bell tower players to practice their songs, they took on a life of their own in handbell ensembles, where groups of musicians ...

Listener and musician Randy Granger of Las Cruces, N.M., plays the Hang, an odd-shaped instrument created in Switzerland in the late 1990s. It looks and sounds alien. Today's sound clip introduces us ...

In 1953, a colossal musical instrument called a carillon — made up of 47 bells and collectively weighing 12 tons — made a journey via ship from Holland, through the Panama Canal to Seattle and ...

In the late Bronze Age, ca. 500-450 BCE, bells were made in sets that rang different notes according to size. Freer|Sackler In the year 433 BCE, Marquis Yi of the state of Zeng was laid to rest in his ...

Every year Handwerkplatz becomes an outdoor concert hall for a musician in a black costume and a golden phoenix mask. Sitting in a cabin, he presses baton-like keys with fists and feet, creating ...

There are drums on the beach and guitars in the streets. But there’s another sound of summer with a unique ring to it: the bells of Behrend. And crowds can listen for free during this summer's Smith ...

FALL RIVER — When the new B.M.C. Durfee High School building opens, it will include a nearly 150-year-old part of the school’s history that stretches back to its original building: its bells. “The ...