Handbells have been around for centuries. Originally invented for church bell tower players to practice their songs, they took on a life of their own in handbell ensembles, where groups of musicians ...

In 1953, a colossal musical instrument called a carillon — made up of 47 bells and collectively weighing 12 tons — made a journey via ship from Holland, through the Panama Canal to Seattle and ...

In 1876, Eugene Bowen graduated from Tufts College known by peers and faculty as the most prominent bell ringer of his class.

Every day at 5 p.m., rich melodies roll over the lawns of West Campus, washing over the masses typing on laptops at tables in the Bryan Center plaza all the way to students tossing frisbees in the ...

Go find a long chunk of stone, hang it from a tree or a viga and strike it with another stone. Will it ring like a bell? It is perhaps hard to imagine, but stone bells used by Pueblo peoples in their ...

The University of Washington’s newest musical icon will ring out over campus for the first time Thursday. The dedication of the new instrument containing a series of harmonic bells, will take place at ...

Listener and musician Randy Granger of Las Cruces, N.M., plays the Hang, an odd-shaped instrument created in Switzerland in the late 1990s. It looks and sounds alien. Today's sound clip introduces us ...