Vietnam or Thailand ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Updated: May 2, 2025
This is a sort of keyboard with pedals played by hand and foot, fashioned like a rude piano. The work is very hard, one would think, but I have heard some remarkable results from it. In former times the office of "carilloneur" was a most important position, and, as in the case of the Van den Gheyn family of Louvain, it was hereditary.
I have often wondered how my ideas flow or ebb without the influence of my will; sometimes when I am with those I love, flowing faster than tongue can utter, and sometimes ebbing, ebbing, till nought but sand and sludge are left. We have been much entertained with Le petit Carilloneur.
Then followed upon the bells a solemn and funereal melody. "How comes that?" I asked the priest, without stopping to consider whether I had the right to speak during my vigil. "It is the carilloneur," my fellow watcher said, interrupting his whispered and sibilant devotions, and turning to me, as it seemed, unwillingly. "Have you not heard it before?
Word Of The Day
Others Looking