Chords for Improvising on a 500 Year old Music Instrument - The Carillon

So we're standing here at the church tower carillon of our museum and this is actually
one [C] of the instruments that inspired you the most to build the [Bb] carillon.
[G] It was the programming ground of this carillon that it [B] was so easy to see how it worked and
[Ab] when I walked out of this museum three years [C] ago I wanted to build a more machine because
of this instrument actually. _ _ _
_ _ _ _ [Cm] _ Welcome to [Ab] Music Machine Mondays, the series where [G] we are featuring my favorite mechanical
music instruments from the Speelklok Museum. _ _
[Ab] _ _ [Bb] _ _ [Cm] _ _ Have [Ab] you ever been in a city and suddenly heard a [Cm] clock tower playing music [Ab] somewhere
in the distance?
[F] The chance is high [Cm] that what you were hearing [Ab] was a 500 [Eb] year old invention and [Fm] one of the
mightiest music [Eb] instruments there is.
[Cm] _ On today's episode [Ab] we're taking a look at the carillon, a [Cm] programmable instrument [Fm] that
play [C] acoustic music for [Cm] entire cities in clock [Ab] towers all over the world.
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_ _ _ _ [Cm] _ _ Yes and in your [Fm] videos you actually call [F] it a programming [Em] wheel.
The [G] official term is repinable music drum.
_ So that's the official term because just like with your marble machine you can also take
the pins [Eb] out and put them somewhere else.
So actually every [Ab] bell has its own [Gb]
track and through these [Eb] transmission wires _ [B] these metal
pegs [C] are connected to the hammers of the bells.
And as you can see some of the bells have [G] two hammers.
So that [B] means the same note can play quite fast after one another.
So [D] I will lift these [B] two over here.
[Eb] You can actually see the two hammers start playing.
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So which [Eb] is very interesting for me because I have this idea of the Marble Machine [D] X that
we should have two places where we can release two marbles to play on the same note to be
able to play. _
_ And this is [Bb] actually, they were 500 years before me with that idea.
Yeah something [G] like that.
_ _ I'm going to play it of course.
_ And this is just one of the ways we can listen to the [G] carillon. _ _ _
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_ _ _ _ [Cm] The carillon is a clock tower [F] instrument and probably a Dutch [Cm] invention although historians
are [Ab] not entirely [Bb] sure.
[Cm] This carillon is built around [Ab] 1600 in Cirquezee, The [F] Netherlands. _ _ _
[D] _ _ [Eb] _ _ [Cm] _ Imagine that [Fm] moment 500 years [Cm] ago when self playing music was invented and [Bb] the carillon
was heard in the streets for the first [Ab] time.
It [G] must have been truly magical. _ _ _
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_ [F] When you think about it, it's [A] also truly [C] magical that the Renaissance makers managed to build
an instrument [Eb] like this at the time.
[D] Internet bandwidth was really low during [Ab] the Renaissance and [Bb] they couldn't even watch [A] Mattias
Vandel videos on YouTube [Bb] to learn how to do it.
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_ _ _ Ok, so this [G] was one way of playing the carillon and what is this? _
[F] You can also play the carillon with your fists actually.
So as you can see we have like two sets of transmission wires and one is connected to
the hammers for the repeatable music drum.
But as [Eb] you can see each bell also has a clapper hanging inside the bell.
And those clappers you can move with your fists so if you like.
So you're not playing like this?
No, no.
You're playing like this?
You're playing like [D] this, yeah.
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_ _ I'm going [Eb] to try to play something.
Yes, of course.
I'm going to make an [Db] improvisation on the carillon.
Please [C] do.
Ok.
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Ok, let's go. _ _ _ _ _
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_ _ [Eb] _ It's quite [Bb] a big instrument.
[B] _ _ [C] _ In [Ab] the next episode we're [C] taking a look at another mechanical masterpiece. _ _
_ [Cm] _ Thanks [G] to our friends at the Spelklok Museum and thanks to you for watching.
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