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In this 2018 photo provided by Duke University, Sam Hammond, university carillonneur, plays the Duke Chapel carillon at the university in Durham, North Carolina. Hammond died Thursday, Feb. 25, 2021, in Durham, the university said in a news release. (Jared Lazarus/Duke University via AP)

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“When I was a freshman at Duke, I met the student carillonneur at the time, John Simpson, when we studied organ together,” Hammond said in the article about his retirement.

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