Chime (bell instrument)


A carillon-like instrument with fewer than 23 bells is called a chime.
The first bell chime was created in 1487. Before 1900, chime bells typically lacked dynamic variation and were not harmonically tuned. Since then chime bells produced in Belgium, the Netherlands, England, and America have tuning to produce fully harmonized music. Some towers in England normally hung for full circle change ringing can be chimed when mouth downwards by an Ellacombe apparatus.
American chimes usually have one to one and a half diatonic octaves. Some chimes are automated.

Notable chimes