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Coming up: Inspection of bell# by carUlonneur Percival Pric? means four stories or climbing. MAN in the TOWER In a tower room ten stories high above Ann Arbor, Mich., a lone man whacks his fists against a long series of pegs pro jecting from a board, stamps on a row of foot pedals ? and makes beautiful music that peals out across the city and the cam pus of the University of Michigan. He is Pulitzer Prize-winning musician Percival Price. His instrument is an im ported, 53-bell carillon, mounted in Burton Tower at the college, and weighing 63 tons. Carillons are among the largest musical instruments ever devised by man. Price is professor of campanology, the science of bells, and carillonneur of the university. All over Ann Arbor, men, women and children listen to the bells. They listen while they stroll across the campus, wait for buses, work in offices and stores, do shopping and clean house. For years now Professor Price has rung the beautifully toned bells several times a week, and has made them an Ann Arbor institution. Here be is shown, ringing the bells. Burton Tower, where Percival Price makes mu^ic head all over the University of Michigan campus. In his study, Prof. Price, carlllonneur and internationally rec ognized authority on bells, composes and arranges music. Ring of felt shields little finger from shock of blow on peg-like key, or "baton.** Pedal* wd baton* trip slippers against bells.: Carillonneur wears thick-soled shoes to protect feet as he stamps oo pwtajjwhicb opexat# ciaapers oi Ur*er KaII. Price and student lean on 03-ton bell. Object In front Is ] of automatic clock mechanism. ? I 1 Ha play*, tad the music from the 63 belle eweepe orer the ctmpua and a Urge put of the ctty. 4
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