Definition of "carillon" [car•il•lon]

• A stationary set of chromatically tuned bells in a tower, usually played from a keyboard. (noun)
• A composition written or arranged for these bells. (noun)
• To play a carillon. (verb-intransitive)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "I think the thing with "carillon" is that it is a whole range of different sounds ... each coins strikes a different note as it hits the others ... a chime is surely a single note?"
• "It was a carillon, that is, a continued mass of real music, in which whole tunes, songs, and elaborate pieces of such length, mass and harmony, as only a choir of many voices, a band of music, or an orchestra of many performers could produce."
• "It evolved into what is now known as the carillon - the world's heaviest musical instrument!"