 Bonshō have occasionally been used as musical instruments in modern compositions . The recorded sound of temple bells was used in Mayuzumi Toshiro 's piece Olympic Campanology , used to open the 1964 Tokyo Olympic Games . A temple bell is also used in performances of Jacob Druckman 's piece Lamia , in which it is rung while placed on top of a kettledrum . Modern composers for percussion have sometimes used the temple bell to replace the now common sound of the orchestral tam @-@ tam . 
