List of carillons

The Netherlands, Belgium, and the United States contain more than two thirds of the world's total, and over 90 percent can be found in either Western Europe (mainly the Low Countries) or North America.

Conversely, TowerBells.org – a database of tower bells of all types – defines a "non-traditional" carillon, which is an instrument that has had some component electrified or computerized.

Since the 1980s, Belgium has used a targeted cultural diplomacy program to expose Japanese artists and students to the carillon, and to encourage them to construct instruments in their country.

Members of the Shinji Shumeikai religious movement, inspired by their trip to St. Rumbold's Cathedral in Mechelen, purchased a carillon for Shigaraki in 1990.

They also span a wide range of notes, from 21 (which the Flemish association considers a carillon despite failing its definition that requires at least 23[18]) up to 64.

This news circulated among the Allied Powers, who saw it as "the brutal annihilation of a unique democratic music instrument".

Poets – often exaggerating reality – wrote that the Belgian carillons were in mourning and awaited to ring out on the day of the country's liberation.

Edward Elgar composed a work for orchestra which includes motifs of bells and a spoken text anticipating the victory of the Belgian people.

[24] Following the war, countries in the Anglosphere built their own carillons to memorialise the lives lost and to promote world peace,[22] including two in England.

Poets – often exaggerating reality – wrote that the Belgian carillons were in mourning and awaited to ring out on the day of the country's liberation.

Edward Elgar composed a work for orchestra which includes motifs of bells and a spoken text anticipating the victory of the Belgian people.

[167] Following the war, countries in the Anglosphere built their own carillons to memorialise the lives lost and to promote world peace,[165] including two in Australia and one in New Zealand.

[172] The carillons were primarily constructed in the interwar period by the English bellfounders John Taylor & Co, Gillett & Johnston, and Whitechapel.