trad - carillon with traditional keyboard non-trad - carillon with non-traditional mechanism mech? - carillon with unknown mechanism chime - chime (any mechanism)NOTE: This index initially included only installations in the Americas. It is currently being expanded to have a wider geographic coverage.
MONTEVIDEO - Unknown ! : URUGUAY ???? C mech? (Unknown) OUDENAARDE : BELGIUM 19?? I trad Ste.Walburgatoren (or St.Walburgis) TIELT : BELGIUM 19?? E trad Belfort/Stadhuis/Halletoren TIENEN : BELGIUM 1920 I trad Stadsbeiaard (city carillon) Sint Germanuskerk (S.Germain) BINCHE : BELGIUM 1923 C non-trad Hotel de Ville (Stadhuis/Belfort) SAINT PAUL - HHPC : USA - MN 1923 F trad Noyes Memorial Carillon House of Hope Presbyterian Church (PCUSA) GRIMBERGEN : BELGIUM 1928 C (trad) Norbertijner Abdij (St.Servaas Basilica) HILLEROD : DENMARK - S 1928 R trad Slot (Royal Castle) HOLTE : DENMARK - S 1928 F trad Søllerød Slot (Castle) HOLTE : DENMARK - S 1929 E trad Søllerød Slot (Castle) GUATEMALA CITY : GUATEMALA 1932 C mech? (Unknown) NORTHFIELD : USA - VT 1933*F trad Charlotte Nichols Greene Memorial Carillon Jeannie Porter Adams Memorial Tower Norwich University * not installed here until 1956 IEPER - B : BELGIUM 1934 F trad Halletoren (Belfort) KAUNAS : LITHUANIA 1935 C trad Military Museum of Vitautas the Great SAN SIMEON : USA - CA 1937 C non-trad Hearst Castle Towers Hearst San Simeon State Historical Monument STANFORD : USA - CA 1938*F trad Hoover Institute Carillon Hoover Tower Stanford University * not installed here until 1941 GERAARDSBERGEN : BELGIUM 1939 I trad Sint Bartholomeuskerk THUIN : BELGIUM 1939 E non-trad Beffroi (Belfort) OTTAWA - STJ : CANADA - ON 1940 C trad Église St-Jean-Baptiste MECHELEN - STR/1 : BELGIUM 1945 I trad (Historic carillon) Lower belfry Sint-Romboutstoren (St.Rombold's Tower) POSTEL : BELGIUM 1947 F trad Norbertijner Abdij (Norbertine Abbey) GENT - B : BELGIUM 1948 R trad/great Belfort MECHELEN - STR/1 : BELGIUM 1948 E trad (Historic carillon) Lower belfry Sint-Romboutstoren (St.Rombold's Tower) DENDERMONDE : BELGIUM 1949 F trad Belfort--Stadhuis/Lakenhal/Town Hall ANTWERPEN : BELGIUM 1951 R trad City carillon (stadsbeiaard) O.L.V. Kathedraal ATH : BELGIUM 1953 F trad Eglise St.Julien (Sint-Juliaankerk) MECHELEN - HVB : BELGIUM 1953 C trad 'Hof van Busleyden' Stedelijk Museum ATH : BELGIUM 1954 I trad Eglise St.Julien (Sint-Juliaankerk) KORTRIJK - STM : BELGIUM 1955 R trad Sint Maartenskerk MECHELEN - OLVVH (mobile) : BELGIUM 1955 C trad Procession carillon (traveling) Basiliek OLV-van Hanswijk HOOGSTRATEN : BELGIUM 1960 E trad Ste.Katarina Dekanale Kerk (St.-Catharinakerk) TOURNAI - B : BELGIUM 1961 E trad Belfort (Beffroi) VEURNE : BELGIUM 1961 C trad St.Nikolaastoren (Sint-Niklaaskerk)
Marcel Michiels, Sr., was born in Mechelen, the son of clockmaker Edward Michiels. He studied bellfounding with Felix van Aerschodt, and in 1886 bought the vacant bellfoundry of Drouot in Tournai. He made some bells, but was not greatly successful. After he died in 1924, the bellfoundry was taken over by his son, Marcel Michiels, Jr., who had been born in 1898. A brief partnership (1928-32) with his former teacher, van Aerschodt, was not a success, but later he exported carillons to several countries. From 1929, Michiels supplied bells to Omer Michaux; in 1937, Michaux and Michiels were involved in the forgery of supposedly ancient bells (some purported to be by Hemony) for Alfred University (USA), though the forgery was not discovered for many years. Marcel Michiels, Jr., committed suicide in 1962. The foundry was taken over by a joint venture between Eijsbouts and Petit & Fritsen, under the name M.Michiels Successors, but ceased operations the following year.
Source: A.Lehr, Register of [Dutch-related] bellfounders (in Dutch only)
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