Guild European Tour 2003


Ecole Francaise de Carillon in Douai, France

Rena at Douai practice carillon

Douai carillon console

Douai bells

Tiffany playing Le Carillon ambulant de Douai

Rena and Euge enjoying panini in downtown Douai

St-Amand-les-Eaux

Steep Seclin stairs

Seclin's automatic carillon

Jeremy pushes the minivan as Rena steers after breaking down on a French highway

Sint-Rombouts tower, Mechelen, Belgium

Old Guild photo on display in the Museum of the Royal Carillon School!

Antwerp tower by night

Clock on Antwerp tower

Dramatic bell casting at Eijsbouts

Tour of Eijsbouts Bellfoundry

Tom tries the old carillon at Sint-Rombouts

Bells at Leuven

Bells in Brielle, Netherlands

View from the top of Culemborg tower

Dom Tower, Utrecht

Bells at Dom Tower

Swinging bell at Dom Tower

Jeremy and Tiff at Dom Tower

View from Dom Tower

Jeremy waving at the foot of Dom Tower

St. Nicholas Cathedral, Utrecht

Jacques Maassen giving Tiff a lesson at the Netherlands Carillon School, Amersfoort

Bells in the Tower of Our Lady, Amersfoort

Guild with Eddy Marien and Jo Haazen at the Royal Carillon School


Itinerary

March 8 - 9
Fly to Paris via London
Check into hostel L’Etape in Cambrai

March 10 -11
Meet Stefano Colletti at Douai tower, Ecole Française de Carillon
Play the Carillon ambulant de Douai

March 12
Meet Charles Dairay at the tower of St-Amand-les-Eaux
Orchies carillon

March 13
Fun in Paris!
Drive to Mechelen, Belgium

March 14
Antwerp carillon at the Cathedral of Our Lady
Study with Eddy Marien at the Royal Carillon School

March 15
Study with Jo Haazen
Play at Sint-Rombouts tower with Twan Bearda
St. Pieters carillon and University Carillon in the Central University Library at Leuven (see info on the 7-ton bourdon.)

March 16
Play at the Belfry in Ghent
Drive to Amsterdam, check into hostel Stayokay

March 17
Brielle carillon
Culemborg carillon

March 18 - 19
Netherlands Carillon School in Amersfoort
Dom Tower (history) and St. Nicholas, Utrecht
Lessons with Arie Abbenes and Jacques Maassen

March 20
Fly home!