{"id":106416,"date":"2019-11-25T08:45:25","date_gmt":"2019-11-25T07:45:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.erasmusmagazine.nl\/en\/?p=106416"},"modified":"2025-12-19T11:24:35","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T10:24:35","slug":"playing-the-carillon-is-like-using-a-hammer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.erasmusmagazine.nl\/en\/2019\/11\/25\/playing-the-carillon-is-like-using-a-hammer\/","title":{"rendered":"Playing the carillon is like using a hammer"},"content":{"rendered":"

Have you ever heard the bells playing on campus each workday between 12.30 and 13.00? And have you ever wondered who played them? These bells are being played through a special instrument, which makes it a carillon. Since 2008, EUR\u2019s carillonneur Mathieu Polak has been teaching students to play the instrument as well.<\/p>\n

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Students Sarah and Azura attending the carillon course.<\/span><\/p><\/figcaption><\/figure>

Underneath the skybridge between the Tinbergen and Erasmus buildings, there is a room with a practice carillon. Every Wednesday, Polak teaches students to play it. This year, he has four new students. The French International Bachelor of Economics and Business economics (IBEB) student Sarah Burnod learned about the carillon course through the Studium Generale website. \u201cI was looking for events and I stumbled upon this course. It looked fun and I wanted to try playing another instrument besides piano.\u201d Sarah started the course with fellow IBEB student Azura Ha Nguyen from Vietnam. Azura wanted to try a European musical instrument, because they don\u2019t have a carillon in Vietnam.<\/p>\n\n\t

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