A very fine discussion of things that come in fours.
I can remember back in the thirties an athletic foursome waking
the whole town ringing the bells the hard way,
Now with electronics obviating muscle, a dainty damsel at a keyboard can compete with complex compositions with a minimum of travail. E.g.:
Liesbeth Janssens
Visiting Performer
Liesbeth Janssens at MSU Born in 1971 in Mechelen, Belgium, Liesbeth Janssens attended the Lemmens Institute at Leuven (Belgium), obtaining Master's Degrees in piano, harmony, music history and chamber music. She was granted the Laureate Diploma with Distinction from the Royal Carillon School at Mechelen, Belgium, in 1994. Afterwards, she pursued advanced studies with Milford Myhre (Florida) and with Tim Hurd (New Zealand). She returned to the Lemmens Institute to get a Master's Degree in Carillon in 1997.

She won prizes in numerous competitions, such as the first prize in the Rotterdam (Netherlands) Carillon Competition of 1996, second prize in the prestigious Queen Fabiola Competition 1998 in Mechelen, Belgium, and second prize in the Springfield Carillon Competition 2000 in Illinois. She forms a carillon duo with her husband Geert D'hollander, with whom she spent two years at the University of Berkeley, California, to play the University Carillon between 1997 and 1999. She has performed extensively throughout Belgium, the Netherlands, the US, France, Germany, and New Zealand. She performed at numerous Carillon Festivals such as at Berkeley University in 1998, at Springfield (Illinois) in 1999, at Innsbruck (Austria) in 2000, at Bok Tower Gardens (Florida) in 2001, and at Copenhagen (Denmark) in 2001.

Liesbeth Janssens is city carillonneur of Lommel and assistant carillonneur at the belfry carillon of Ghent, Belgium. She is also editor of the Flemish Carillon Magazine.

Ms. Janssen's upcoming recital will occur: