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AULNE : BELGIUM ???? C chime *NEW* (place uncertain) BLANDAIN : BELGIUM 1??? C chime Tour St.Éleuthère HAINE-SAINT-PAUL : BELGIUM 1??? C chime Église Saint-Hubert LA LOUVIERE : BELGIUM 1??? C trad Tour St.Joseph MALMEDY : BELGIUM 1??? E trad Cathédrale SS-Pierre-Paul-et-Quirin (Kathedraal St.Quirin) MONTEVIDEO - Unknown ! : URUGUAY ???? C mech? (Unknown) TIELT : BELGIUM 19?? E trad Belfort/Stadhuis/Halletoren VERVIERS - ND : BELGIUM 1937 C trad Église Notre-Dame-des-Récollets (O.L.V.-Kerk) VILLERS-DEVANT-ORVAL : BELGIUM 19?? C chime Clocktower Abbaye Notre-Dame (Orval Abbey) VISE : BELGIUM ???? C non-trad Hôtel de Ville (Stadhuis) PERUWELZ : BELGIUM 1906 F trad Basilique Nôtre Dame de Bon-Secours (O.L.V.-Basiliek) VERVIERS - SH : BELGIUM 1908 C non-trad Hôtel de Ville (Stadhuis) TONGEREN : BELGIUM 1913 I trad Stadtoren O.L.V.Kerk (Basiliek) TIENEN : BELGIUM 1920 I trad Stadsbeiaard (city carillon) Sint Germanuskerk (S.Germain) STEENOKKERZEEL : BELGIUM 1922 I trad St.Romboutstoren 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) ENGHIEN : BELGIUM 1925 I trad Eglise St-Nicolas de Smyrne (St.Niklaas Kerk) MAGALAS : FRANCE - 34 1926*C trad Carillon "Jan Donnes" Musée des Cloches et des Campanes * made for another site 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) RONSE : BELGIUM 1928 I trad Sint-Hermeskerk (Eglise St.Hermes) HOLTE : DENMARK - S 1929 I trad Søllerød Slot (Castle) ENKHUIZEN - K : NETHERLANDS 1930 C [trad] Kerk Not here - town name may be wrong SAINT-AMAND-LES-EAUX - 1 : FRANCE - 59 1931 I trad Tour de l'ancienne Abbaye BAILLEUL : FRANCE - 59 1932 C trad Beffroi Hôtel de Ville GUATEMALA CITY : GUATEMALA 1932 C mech? (Unknown) HARELBEKE : BELGIUM 1932 C (trad) Sint Salvatorkerk NORTHFIELD : USA - VT 1933*F trad Charlotte Nichols Greene Memorial Carillon Jeannie Porter Adams Memorial Tower Norwich University * not installed here until 1956 FOSSES-LA-VILLE : BELGIUM 1934 C chime Collégiale Saint-Feuillen IEPER - B : BELGIUM 1934 F trad Halletoren (Belfort) MONS - B : BELGIUM 1934 R trad Belfort (Beffroi) CHARLEROI : BELGIUM 1935 C trad Beffroi Hôtel de Ville (Stadhuis) DIKSMUIDE - S : BELGIUM 1935 C trad Belfort Stadhuis KAUNAS : LITHUANIA 1935 F trad Military Museum of Vitautas the Great SAN SIMEON : USA - CA 1937 C non-trad Hearst Castle Towers Hearst San Simeon State Historical Monument WINGENE : BELGIUM 1937 R trad Sint-Amanduskerk STANFORD : USA - CA 1938*F trad Lou Henry Hoover Carillon (formerly Hoover Institute Carillon) Hoover Tower Stanford University * not installed here until 1941 BRUGGE - H : BELGIUM 1939 R trad City carillon (stadsbeiaard) Halletoren (Belfort) GERAARDSBERGEN : BELGIUM 1939 I trad Sint Bartholomeuskerk THUIN : BELGIUM 1939 E trad Beffroi (Belfort) IZEGEM : BELGIUM 1940 E trad Sint Hiloniuskerk (Sint-Tillo) OTTAWA - STJ : CANADA - ON 1940 C trad Église St-Jean-Baptiste FLOREFFE : BELGIUM 1941 C chime Klein Seminary (Toren Oude Praemonstr. Abdij) ROESELARE : BELGIUM 1942 I trad Sint Michielskerk Kortrijk : Belgium 1945 - great Onze-Lieve-Vrouwekerk MECHELEN - STR/1 : BELGIUM 1945 I trad (Historic carillon) Lower belfry Sint-Romboutstoren (St.Rombold's Tower) PERUWELZ : BELGIUM 1947 E trad Basilique Nôtre Dame de Bon-Secours (O.L.V.-Basiliek) 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 - B : BELGIUM 1949 F trad Belfort--Stadhuis/Lakenhal/Town Hall MEISE : BELGIUM 1949 C (trad) St.Martinustoren ANTWERPEN : BELGIUM 1951 R trad City carillon (stadsbeiaard) O.L.V. Kathedraal BEAURAING : BELGIUM 1951 C trad Kapel St.Martin (St.Martinus) MOL : BELGIUM 1951 F trad St.Pieter en Pauwel (St.-Petrus en Pauluskerk) NIEUWPOORT : BELGIUM 1952 C trad City carillon O.L.V. Kerk ATH : BELGIUM 1953 F trad City carillon Eglise Saint-Julien (Sint-Juliaankerk) MECHELEN - HVB : BELGIUM 1953 C trad 'Hof van Busleyden' Stedelijk Museum ATH : BELGIUM 1954 I trad City carillon Eglise Saint-Julien (Sint-Juliaankerk) KORTENBOS : BELGIUM 1954 C trad O.L.V.-Hemelvaartbasiliek OOSTAKKER : BELGIUM 1954 C non-trad Maria-Basiliek (OLV-Toren) WAVRE : BELGIUM 1954 F trad Eglise Saint-Jean-Baptiste (St.-Jan-Baptist) ENGHIEN : BELGIUM 1955 E trad Eglise St-Nicolas de Smyrne (St.Niklaas Kerk) HAALTERT : BELGIUM 1955 C trad Sint-Gorikstoren (St.Gaugericus) KORTRIJK - STM : BELGIUM 1955 R trad Sint-Maartenskerk LEDE : BELGIUM 1955 C trad St.Maartenstoren MECHELEN - OLVVH/mobile : BELGIUM 1955 C trad Procession carillon (traveling) Basiliek OLV-van Hanswijk SINT-NIKLAAS : BELGIUM 1955 I trad Belfort, Stadhuis (Waas) FLORENVILLE : BELGIUM 1956 C trad Eglise de l'Assomption (Notre Dame Dekanale Kerk) HARELBEKE : BELGIUM 1960 C trad Sint Salvatorkerk HOOGSTRATEN : BELGIUM 1960 E trad Ste.Katarina Dekanale Kerk (St.-Catharinakerk) TOURNAI - B : BELGIUM 1961 I trad Beffroi (Belfort) 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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