The Cornell Clocktower
Toccata...
Here are some photographs of my beloved tower, scavenged
from places all over the world wide web (otherwise known as the world wide
wait). There are currently only 6 active chimesmasters. Each
chimesmaster plays an average of 3 or 4 concerts per week.
Unknown to all outsiders excepting the few privileged and
lucky people who have managed to find their way to this page, we have an
office in the second floor of the tower. It is very nicely furnished
with desks, chairs, bookshelves, books, fridge, comfy sofa, coat hanger,
access to internet and e-mail, electric keyboard, and some well-appreciated
privacy (open 24 hours a day). It is not a good idea to spend the
night there as it gets cold in the wintertime and if you happen to have
a full bladder in the middle of the night your only choice will be to groggily
climb 5 flights of cold metallic echoey stairs to the quasi comodo.
This mode of living is highly discouraged.
The annoying thing that you find out about the tower (that
normal people would never notice) are the flocks of pigeons that decide
to make the tower their home. We have spikes in the windows intended
to keep the pigeons away but they don't care and go pooping all over the
place nevertheless. Sometimes when I'm walking up the tower to my
concert, I hear all the warbling of the pigeons. Ah, that's mother
pigeon nesting in the pendulum room. And on the belfry I love
to give them a little scare, running at them going AHHH!!
... and Fugue
This is the playing stand on the 9th level.
And this is how we play. This is Courtney Kimball
'01.
Over Spring Break '02, we set aside three days to do some
recording for our CD. By the last day, we had worn ourselves out
and gotten sick of playing the same thing over and over again, trying to
make it just perfect. Wouldn't you get tired of this sort of workout?
Take ten?
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