On top of Amsterdam church tower :: man plays bell organ!

[jghcky]

over 500 years old! not almost 400!

[alanstarkie2001]

I'd like to see this!

[sprinter977]

Magical melody!

I heard many times in Amsterdam this sweet organ from live and i have nice memoryes :-)

[MickedyMusic]

It that "somewhere over the rainbow"?

[irkibby]

Ceretainly is!

[henderek]

is that o sole mio what he is playing?

is dat een bewerking van o sole mio?

[mietekzjaczna]

super !!

[bastiorgel]

i like he playing

[BeFrSc]

Its called a Carrilon.

[tjugofyra]

Carillon* :p

[THBerkman]

That man is Boudewijn Zwart!:P

[samanli1]

It's like a piano but there are bells instead of strings.

[Audinos]

The problem with playing a carillon is that if you make a mistake, everyone knows it for blocks in all directions.

[PQleyR]

Yes, and there's nothing they can do to stop you if it sounds horrible!

[yermyahu]

That's why carillon towers are so high and enclosed ..to keep fanatical or sensitive critics from hurling stones at the player...or at least the bells ;]

[irkibby]

It's an organ like thing, just without the organ... like a pushbike is an automobile like thing, just without the engine!

It's a load of bells hit with hammers from a keyboard , called a carillon and they are very common in Holland and Belgium. there are also lots in the USA and others dotted around the world. He seems to be playing "somewhere over the rainbow" which is quite appropiate for Amsterdam

[churchwhistles]

A carillon is not like an organ in the class of instruments to which it belongs: the organ is a wind instrument; the carillon is a percussion instrument.

It's like it in spirit, however. You sit down at a keyboard device and play something bigger than you are...

[irkibby]

Of course the carillon is in a different class of instruments. you'd have to be a serious divot to think a carillon is a wind instrument. I was making a point after someone else said this was a "bell organ"...

[churchwhistles]

You didn't read the SECOND part of my comment!