FINEST CARILLON
ROCKEFELLER’S GIFT. MEMORY OF HIS MOTHER. NEW YORK, September 21. A New York Baptist church has been given the world’s greatest carillon, consisting of fifty-three bells. John D. Rockefeller, tne millionaire, made the presentation in memory of his mother. The bells range in weight from ten tons for some of tire lower notes to 121 b for the higher notes of the scale. The series of fifty-three were made at Croydon, in England, which has been famous for centuries for its bellmaking. When the carillon played first time traffic in New York within a radius of two pliles halted to listen.
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Evening Star, Issue 19062, 3 October 1925, Page 22
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103FINEST CARILLON Evening Star, Issue 19062, 3 October 1925, Page 22
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