the Quadrabell tape driven carillon video

I saw a video on the internet that was about the Quadrabell tape driven carillon. I would've done anything to find something like this out, as I was once very curious on how those bells were rung to play those songs on such a tiny steeple. Chances are the guy that made this video worked at this church, as you heard the beautiful bell songs played on the carillon as he walked toward the side of the church. The church seems to be a Zion church as it said on the sign at the church. The guy went to the side of the church, into some doors to get inside and up a flight of stairs. As he goes upstairs, you hear the bell music getting louder and louder, until he reached the top of the steps and you saw the Quadrabell  tape deck carillon in full operation. I have to say that although it's a tape driven carillon, the bell music sounds really good and memorable. It was really neat to see this video, as I now know that churches have those type of carillons to play their songs, but I would've loved to see their device and where it was placed. Most times I got  yelled at by someone who worked at the church when I asked about their bells. Were they trying to keep it a big secret, or was this something that they were only supposed to know? There is nothing wrong with asking about something you want to know about, since I was very interested in their bell songs and I wanted to say how much I appreciated them. I figured that if I knew what electronic carillon system the church had, I could look it up on the internet and find out more info on it, and maybe get some song samples. I'm sure I wasn't the only one curious about the church bells and how they were rung.

Space Needle carillon at the 1963 seatlle world's fair

On late night tv,  I came across a documented tv special on the 1963 Seatlle World's fair, and it was before my time but it sounded like a really fun place to go, although the NY world's fair would've been closer. Anyway, with all the fun, action, and exhibits and activities as well as a look into the high tech world of tommorrow, a series of electronic bells were heard playing at the top of the Space Needle tower. It was a Schulmerich Americana Carillon electronic playing device, which the songs were played by Mr. John Klein. He was up inside the top of the tower playing a variety of songs on this electroinc carillon, and it was heard all throughout the park. The songs sounded really beautiful as heard duing the special, and I would've loved to get a copy of those songs. A LP record called HiFi bells was released in 1963 featuring a few songs played on the Schulmerich carillon for about $20. Sadly I don't have a record player anymore, and I've attempted to contact the original record company Americana Records online to see if a digital download of the record is available to purchase. Hopefully a digital version will be available. They also had a carillion performance at the Coca Cola exhibition building during another world's fair. It might've been in NY.

The Schulmerich lost memory carillon is finally found

Back in the 1990's when I moved to my new apartment, a church in the area, known as the Old Redeemer Lutheran Church had played harmonious electronc carillon music from a Schulmerich Carillon Campanile Bell Instrument Model 36-1321-100. The songs were piped to the megaphones that were mounted ontop of the roof, and could be heard for miles around, as they usually played everyday at 11:45 a.m.  The church also had a food program to help feed the needy and hungry, as the doors would open up when the bells rang. It was a  great church as my stepdad's mom Mrs. Mildred C Bruck had sung in the choir, as well as rang in their handbell choir. I've attended their church service, but mostly during the holidays as I  remember the candle lit ceramony as everyone sang Christmas carols.
                    In later years, Mrs. Bruck had passed away in July of 2004, and because of the decline in people coming to worship in that church, the decision was made to close the doors of that church. But it was then that the church had been bought out and now it's Yale Korean, and the electronic  churchbells that once played at this church had been silenced. I've gone there once a year whenever they have their annual Bazzar during May or June or July? They didn't have much to offer, other than booths of vegetables, foods that they cooked on a grill, and homemade freshly blended fruit smoothies. Other than that, they have booths selling clothing, jewerly, kids toys and games and craft items. Mostly, I've gone there to bring back the memories of the church and find out info about their carillon. The people there were very freindly and helpful, but they speak in a differnt language and use their own characters as words, however they do speak English as well, but mostly their worship is done in their language, and I was told by their pastor that he's starting an English service.
I've been to their website, and couldn't read their characters, but maybe I can understand the word Chicken in their characters, and maybe if I stare long enough I just may figure out what it says. The church had changed dramaticly,and from they told me , the last people that were there took everything with them, and that Yale Koreans don't utilize bells in their service. So that explains why the churchbell songs aren't heard from the megaphones anymore.
           So with the help of Pastor Stephanie, and Pastor Hank, The carillon that once was at the OId Redemmer Lutheran Church is now housed at the Parkway Community Church. I was extremely excited to hear the news, and get the info I needed from Pastor Hank about the carillon. I had been searching for  this info for many, many, long years. During that time, I found out info on electronic carillons and the companies that made them. Some of them provided song samples, which had been helpful in bringing back the memories of the churches in my old neighboorhood that used to play their bells. So now, Pastor Hank had sent me photos of the carillon that I've spent years in searching, and I'm going to share it wit you. enjoy. It seems that this electronic carillon was dedicated in the loving memory of Wally Karlson. He might've been a pastor in the Old Redemmer Lutheran Church, or maybe he worked there. It sounds great that this guy was kept in God's memory with this electronic carillon dedicated to his memory. Thank you Pastor Hank and Pastor Stephanie for all your assistance. And God bless your both.

A Great Book I've read about the history of bells

There's an old book at our local library withn the children's section that has a book on the history of bells. It's called Bells and their Music by Wendell Wescott. Mr. Wescott is a professional when it comes to playing bell music, and had traveled the world to find info on the history of this wonderous instrument. It shows photos of Bell Foundries and how the bells are made, as well as breathtaking views of various carillons and churches that have their bells on display. The book even has an old record that contains Mr. Wescott's recordings of the bell's music from his world travels. It's very nostalgic and informative.

the lost carillon had finally been discovered

After many, many long years of searching for an electronic carillon that used to be at the Old Redeemer Lutheran Church In Plainview Ny, I finally got the info I needed. My search had  come to an end as the Parkway Community Church now housed the Schulmerich Carillon Campanile Bell Instrument Model 36-1321-100. This was all thanks to Mr. Pastor Hill, who provided me with this valuable info. This carillon had played such beautiful music at the Old Redeemer, as I first heard it playing back in the late 1990s, when I first moved to the area. It was something about the type of tone of the bell played that made it unique in the way it sounded, but the songs it played were very memorable, but I don't know the name of the songs it played. But one of the songs I remember hearing it play was shown on one of my other blogs as a Windows Live Movie Maker video. It tells the story of the Old Redeemer Lutheran Church and informs about the harmonious bells that used to play, and then got turned off when the  church went through tough financial times and then got changed to Yale Korean. Since then the bells had been silenced, as now I know the last people that worked there took the carillon to the Parkway Community Church. I am soo happy that I may be able to have my memories revived of this harmonic carillon music.

Plainview Chruchbells may now have been finally found!

It's been many long years, since the churchbells had been silenced from the Old Redeemer Lutheran Chruch (The Plainview Church, which is now Yale Korean) But during a fun Chinese New Year celebration at the St Stephens Lutheran Church.  I got the info that may be exactly what I need. I had asked Pastor Stephanie what church this is, as I had made a print out of the church and showed her. She told me that it was the Old Redeemer Lutheran Church. Well with that info and asking on what carillion it had, she told me of a woman sitting at the table behind me.
She had worked in that church and told me lots of info that was extremely helpful, as the carillon was now taken to the Parkway Community Church. With all that excitement, I wrote the info down, and contacted the church by e-mail. The great news came when I got a reply telling me that thanks to my love of that carillon, they will soon be playing it once again, as they haven't used it in 4 years. As for the name of the carillon, they will e-mail me on the info on that carillon when he gets back to the church. I can't believe that those bells will be playing once again, and my search had come to a success.  I was really nervous at first, as alot of times in the past, as whenever I asked a person working in the church about their bells and why they weren't playing. They usually told me "You not supposed to ask that!"  I really do love  those churchbells, as their songs do remind us to think of our lord Jesus Christ and to be faithful and kind and loving to one another and get along and be at peace. In a way, the bells are a way of worship our lord and thanking him for all he's done for us.
                  Yeah, I know that lots of people have often complained about the churchbells being loud and disturbing, but to me a church isn't the same without it's churchbells, even if it's digitized. It's a harmonious thing and enjoyed by millions.

how I made my churchbell ringing dream come true

I've always wanted to ring a churchbell, as It sounded like alot of  fun of pulling on a rope to ring the bell. But as the story starts, back then, alot of  chuches had their churchbells digitized by an electronic carillon system that automatically played a simulated churchbell sound. Pretty good though. Within my years of searching, I found that there were some rare churches that still rang their churchbell manually,but I never got to go to their churches, but I do remember seeing their giant churchbell in their tower and got excited the few times I saw it being rung. Another piece of inspiration was from the Davey and Goliath episode "The Bell Ringer" when Davey gets to help Mr. Op the church custodian to help ring the churchbell. He also got to ring the churchbell at the end of the "New Year" special and got assistance as his younger sister Sally got to hold onto the rope to help ring the big churchbell to bring in the new year.
        In later years, when I moved to my new home, the area seemed old fashioned and there were still some churches that still ring their churchbell. I remember going to one church and discovered that their churchbell is still rung, but this time the rope stretched across as pulled the clapper to ring the bell hanging outside and on the roof of the church. There was an incident of a few times I went to the church, where one of the ministers of the  church had yelled at me very harshly upon me asking if I could help to ring the churchbell. he yelled at me saying "NO! NO! NO! NO! DON'T ASK ME AGAIN! DON'T ASK ME AGAIN!!!!" Now I didn't go and ask him every single day, as I didn't come to that church every Sunday, I had gotten upset and nervous since the minister yelled at me harshly. I thought that nobody should ever get yelled at in God's house. I had attempted to speak to the person in charge of the church and informed her of the minister who yelled at me. She understood and would speak to him, but I never went back to that church as I feared that the minister would see me and yell at me even harsher.  I've read about various churches in the United Kingdom and such that still have their churchbells to be rung by pulling a rope, is rung by other people, and they are not ministers.  They pull on the ropes to ring the bells in a  certain order to learn change ringing and  various othe ringing songs and skills.
           I had found a free program that allowed me to do just that and it was very amazing, but the biggest acomplishment was yet to come. I had gome to another church on Sundays, where they ring their bell to announce the start of worship. The Pastor was very nice, and I had asked her one day if I could ring their  churchbell. She said yes, and arranged the special moment with the ushers. I was excited that I was going to finally achieve my ultimate goal of ringing a churchbell. I got their early, and told the ushers and they took me to be seated to wait for the moment. My heart was pounding in excitement, then one of the ushers  came and guided me to a room where we all said a prayer. A few moments later, the big moment came. The usher guided me and I held onto the rope and pulled it when it was time to ring the churchbell.
BONG BONG BONG BONG BONG,was heard as I successfully rang their churchbell as I rang it 10 times. It was one of the most special feelings I had. So in my mind, I proved the minister who yelled at me in that church wrong. So I won't be gonig back to that first church anytime soon, as it was wrong for the minister to yell at me like that. Maybe there was a little kid that wanted to ring that bell and  constantly asked him day after day, and that's what got him mad. Interesting enough that one of our neighboors works in that church and I  feel uneasy when I see them, as they knew what I had done, and I guess I feel ashamed to talk to them.  Chances are they've written down the incident and have me down on their record, since I did attend their church at times for worship and just sat down in the pew and not ask if I  could ring the bell. Most other times I went upstairs to sit in the balcony as sometimes they performed a handbell choir during Easter and Christmas, which was great to hear.
      So with my acomplishment, I felt proud and happy and that maybe just because one person says you can't do it or you're not allowed, there just might be a way to acomplish it, and all I had to do was ask.