worked in the same foundry, but in 1851 set up a rival company, also claiming the direct continuation of the Vanden Gheyn tradition. Together they were the most important bell-founders in Belgium, and soon they restarted the carillon business. Apart from numerous carillons in Belgium, France and the Netherlands, they delivered them to Aberdeen, Boston, Lincolnshire, Cattistock and Eaton Hall, Cheshire in the UK, Hamburg, Rome, and a 25-bell carillon for the Church of the Holy Trinity, Philadelphia, the first in the Americas with a baton keyboard. He was succeeded by his sons Alphonse and Félix Van Aerschodt. Félix Van Aerschodt Félix Van Aerschodt (4 November 1870 - 23 June 1943) created a carillon for the Ypres Cloth Hall in 1909, which was destroyed only 5 years later when the Germans attacked the city. Félix Van Aerschodt fled to London during the war and worked as managing director at the Foundry & Munition Works there, after the war he returned to Leuven, but only cast two further carillons. As he had no successors, the van Gheyn - Van Aerschodt company ended with him. The Van Aerschodts alone had founded at least 1481 bells. By this time, other members of his family had set up other bell-foundries in Leuven, including his nephew Constant Sergeys and his uncle Alphonse Beullens. The Sergeys foundry closed in 1981, ending 475 years of history. List of Vanden Gheyn carillons A real carillon has at least 23 bells: this list also includes some earlier, smaller sets of bells which were the precursors to the carillons. 1526: St John's Kirk, Perth, Scotland (5 bells, still in place) 1530: Middelburg (4 bells) 1539: Oudenburg (10 bells) 1550-1554: Zuiderhavenpoort, Zierikzee (13 bells, still in place) 1551: Saint Sulpice Church, Diest (3 bells) 1553-1556: Roosendael Abbey, near Mechelen (10 bells): this carillon was moved to Arnemuiden and expanded in 1583 1561: Edam, 16 or 17 bells 1583: Arnemuiden (expansion of the earlier Roosendael Abbey carillon): some of these bells are still there, some are in a tower of the Rijksmuseum, and the remainder is in the Beiaardmuseum in Asten 1591: Belfry, Aalst (5 bells added to an existing carillon) 1593: Town hall, Veere (20 bells) 1595: Sint-Jacobs hospital, Leiden (17 bells) 1595-1597: Monnickendam (15 bells: still playable) 1595-1599: Church of Our Lady across the river Dijle, Mechelen (11-bell carillon plus three large bells) 1615-1616: Sint-Maartensdijk (17 bells) 1728: St. Peter's