Carillons are grand-scale keyboard instrument with a rich 500+ year history. They produce music via several octaves of massive bronze bells hung in towers, providing live public music to the surrounding community, adding a sense of day-to-day beauty and regularity, and helping to mark the seasons, holidays, and other times of joy or sadness.

GVSU’s carillons are world-class instruments containing 48 bells (4 octaves) each, with Cook Tower’s carillon weighs in at over 6 tons and Beckering’s at over 12 tons.

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