> Something like: man_made=bells + bells=carillon for the larger
instruments and man_made=bells + bells=chime for the smaller ones.

That makes sense. Also, "bells" is easier to translate into most languages.

-- Joseph Eisenberg

On Thu, May 7, 2020 at 9:57 AM Adam Franco <[email protected]> wrote:

> These large bell-instruments their own terminology with a Carillon being
> defined as having 24+ bells:* "A carillon-like instrument with fewer than
> 23 bells is called a chime
> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chime_(bell_instrument)>." *(ref
> Wikipedia/Carillon <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carillon>) with the
> exception of *"Instruments built before 1940 and composed of between 15
> and 22 bells may be designated as 'historical carillons.'"* (ref
> Wikipedia/Carillon <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carillon>)
>
> It seems that tagging these instruments under a overarching category might
> be good. Something like: man_made=bells + bells=carillon for the larger
> instruments and man_made=bells + bells=chime for the smaller ones. Those
> "historical carillons" could get either one or their own value for bells=.
> This would avoid the potential confusion of calling something with 14 bells
> a "carillon" which would be inaccurate.
>
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