Bourdon (bell)
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The bourdon is the heaviest of the bells that belong to a musical instrument, especially a chime or a carillon, and produces its lowest tone.
As an example, there is a carillon of 64 bells, the sixth largest bell hanging in the world, in the down-at-the-heels Southern Illinois town of Centralia. The largest bell is identified as the 'bourdon', it weighs 11,000 pounds and is tuned to G. The Centralia Carillon was a single-handed project of the late William V. Joy, publisher of the Centralia Evening Sentinel, and was completed in 1986.
