Keyboard Ranges for Carillons

The ranges of keyboards for carillons and other tower bell instruments are shown in the "Technical data" section of site data pages in a "shorthand" format to avoid wordiness. Although this may seem a bit confusing at first, you will probably become quite comfortable with it after looking at several different site data pages. The format is described below as it applies to traditional baton keyboards for carillons. However, it can also be applied to chimestands, electric keyboards, and indeed any device for playing musical notes by hand. The minor variations of the format to fit these situations are described in the third section below. where The "MlMh" and "PlPh" parts show the ranges of the respective keyboards, where In this simple form, it is assumed that Furthermore, in this simple format it will always be true that if there are any pedals, then Ml = Pl, i.e., all pedals are connected within the console to the corresponding bass notes of the manual keyboard. Example 1: where Be

The ranges of keyboards for carillons and other tower bell instruments are shown in the "Technical data" section of site data pages in a "shorthand" format to avoid wordiness. Although this may seem a bit confusing at first, you will probably become quite comfortable with it after looking at several different site data pages. The format is described below as it applies to traditional baton keyboards for carillons. However, it can also be applied to chimestands, electric keyboards, and indeed any device for playing musical notes by hand. The minor variations of the format to fit these situation