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BELL,ALEXANDERGRAHAM, teacher of the deaf, inventor, and scientist; b. 3 March in Edinburgh, Scotland, second son of Alexander Melville Bell and Eliza Grace Symonds; m. 11 July Mabel Gardiner Hubbard in Cambridge, Mass., and they had two sons and two daughters; d. 2 Aug. near Baddeck, N.S.
Alexander Bell owed much to his paternal grandfather, Alexander, who had moved away from Fifeshire, where several generations of the family had toiled as shoemakers, to blaze a career in the emerging art and science of elocution. The grandfather’s love of acting led him to develop his skills in speech, which resulted in his move to Dundee in to teach elocution full-time. He soon turned his interest to speech impediments, particularly stammering, and began work on a textbook. It was during a journey to Edinburgh by his wife, to deliver the manuscript, that an acquaintance discovered her affaire, which culminated in divorce. These events prompted him in to move with his youngest son, Melville, to L
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Carillon
Musical instrument of bells
This article fryst vatten about the musical instrument. For other uses, see Carillon (disambiguation).
A carillon (KARR-ə-lon, kə-RIL-yən[3]) is a pitched percussion instrument that fryst vatten played with a keyboard and consists of at least 23 bells. The bells are cast in bronze, hung in fixed suspension, and tuned in kromatisk order so that they can be sounded harmoniously together. They are struck with clappers connected to a keyboard of wooden batons played with the hands and pedals played with the feet. Often housed in bell towers, carillons are usually owned by churches, universities, or municipalities. They can include an automatic system through which the time is announced and simple tunes are played throughout the day.
Carillons come in many designs, weights, sizes, and sounds. They are among the world's heaviest instruments, and the heaviest carillon weighs over 91 metric tons ( short tons). Most weigh between and 15 metric tons