The bells ring out - not the clanging you hear in England, but a recognisable tune to mark the time of the day. Those at Douai are particularly well-known , because the peal of 62 bells play different tunes every 15 minutes through the day. The present bells replaced those destroyed by the Germans in 1917. The mobile carillon 2. The bells are played by pulling wooden levers laid out like the keyboard of an organ 3.
Wires link the wooden levers to the clappers of each bell.
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