Adam Ramet said:

> In our property law lecture the other day the lecturer told us that
> across the road from the University here the church has a self-playing
> carillon.  Roll-player or pinned I can't say.  Apparently the
> religious sisters who owned all the land around here and built the
> church had it installed, as in their opinion "human bell-ringers (in
> their experience) would always end up drinking at the pub on Sundays,"
> apparently something for which they themselves had no tolerance for,
> on a Sunday especially. I hope to pay the church a visit soon.

London organ tuner and player piano expert Michael Broadway services a
roll-playing carillon for a church.  From what I recall of what he's told
me, it was evidently made up from player piano parts around 1931.  Rather
amusingly, its trackerbar is a Duo-Art, only the central two octaves
being used.  There is only one, purpose-made, roll which plays a
dignified cadence for four minutes.

Broadway has offered to get some more rolls made, without much interest
being shown.  I asked him, "What would happen if we put a fox-trot roll
on?"  He looked at me: "They would be very disappointed in me."

Dan Wilson

 [ Make it a song with lots of ap-peal !  ;-)  -- Robbie