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Article: Newly burnished carillon in Philadelphia ready to sing out again.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
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- December 11, 2000
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PHILADELPHIA _ The country's second-oldest carillon will soon ring again over Rittenhouse Square, perhaps as early as Christmas Eve.
First hung atop the Church of the Holy Trinity in 1882, the carillon was donated by a Philadelphia dry-goods merchant in memory of his wife. Corrosion silenced it eight years ago, but a parishioner's hefty check started a restoration that began in February.
Once rusty and dirty, the carillon's 25 copper bells now gleam golden, and they can be played manually or electronically.
"They are shiny and new, as if they had come straight from the factory," said the Rev. Terence C. Roper, rector of the Episcopal church at ...
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