Carillons, musical instruments of bells in the percussion family, are found throughout the United States.
For example, the War Memorial and Peace Carillons registry counts instruments that serve as war memorials or were built in the name of promoting world peace.
[4] The World Carillon Federation [nl] defines a carillon as an instrument of at least 23 cast bronze bells hung in fixed suspension, played with a traditional keyboard of batons, and tuned in chromatic order so that they can be sounded harmoniously together.
It may designate instruments of 15 to 22 bells built before 1940 as "historical carillons".
[5] Its member organizations – including for example The Guild of Carillonneurs in North America – also define a carillon with those restrictions.