8A = THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
FEATURE
TUESDAY,JULY3,2001
PHOTO BY THAD ALLENDER/KANSAN
A double-exposure shows the movement of Elizabeth Berghout's hands as she plays the carillon at the top of the Campanile. The assistant professor of music and University carillonneur performed Sunday inside the monument dedicated to students and faculty who died in World War II.
Campanile a complex chord
Carillonneurs battle big bells, tiny space to sound chimes
By Mark Hansen
Kansan staff writer
At the top of the Campanile, metal linkage rods fire like pistons while the bells resonate. The rods pull the anvil-shaped clappers that strike the 53 bells in the Campanile.
The playing cabin is just below five tiers of bells and allows barely enough room to slither around either side of the clavier, or keyboard.
The largest bell weighs 13,440 pounds, and the largest clapper weighs 300 pounds.
Playing the instrument is physical. Elizabeth Berghout, University carillonneur and assistant professor of music, looks like a marionette as she raps the wooden keys with a closed fist. When the pace quickens to a chorus of notes, Berghout somersaults her fists along the keys.
tuned in the factory, but before each recital Berghout adjusts the distance between the clapper and the bells by turning a tension knob. A professional carillon service provider checks the bells once a year.
"Some have called the carillon the most unmusical instrument around," Berghout said. "But I don't think so."
The bells permanently are
Berghout ends each recital with "Crimson and Blue," the KU alma mater.
She became KU's carillonneur last fall, after the retirement of Albert Gerken, who was KU's carillonneur for 37 years.
Berghout offers tours of the Campanile after recitals, which are at 8 on Wednesday evenings with the exception of tomorrow, and 3 p.m. Sundays. They last about 45 minutes in the summer and 1 hour during the school year.
When the bells ring and Berghout is not performing, it could be a student at the keys or the "Westminster Quarters"—a tune that plays automatically every quarter hour.
Classes in carillon are open to students who get permission
Curtis Sloan graduated last spring with a political science and communications degree, and he learned to play the carillon. He gave campus tours as an undergraduate and always mentioned that classes in the carillon were available.
"I worked in Strong Hall," Sloan said, "and I would tell my friends to open to windows and listen."
Sloan's friends could hear his class work.
The Campanile, which was dedicated in 1951 to students and faculty who died in World War II, has an elevator shaft, but no elevator, so one must climb 70 steps wrapped dizzyingly tight around a metal pole to reach the bells.
"The stairs kind of creep you out at night," Sloan said. "But by the end you're running up and down."
Sloan's favorite place to listen to the carillon is behind the railing outside of Spencer Research Library because the sound bounces well.
Hansen can be reached at 864
4810 or writer@kansan.com
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