Robert Grogan, 85, has manually played the 56-bell carillon at the basilica ... Easter vigil Mass on Saturday. Most of the carillon bells only ring when the carillonneur plays them manually.

The sounds of bells ringing can once again be heard thanks to an electronic carillon bell system the city has installed atop the former Dutch Reformed Church at First Avenue and 15 th Street ...

At 6 p.m., the Laura Spellman Rockefeller Memorial Carillon of New York’s Riverside Church, a 74-bell instrument, will ring “against tyranny and in support of freedom and justice for all ...

While manual church bell ringing has persisted in Eastern Orthodox countries, it has largely been replaced by bell ringing systems in Catholic and Protestant churches in Western Europe.