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Joop Addicks (player)
'.. The telephone book of Amsterdam lists three Addicks. The first phone call was a lucky one: Anneke Addicks. [She told the author that] Joop (1902) was the eldest of six children in the Addicks family. After him came Henk (1903), Floris (1904), Nico (1906), Johanna (1908) and Willie (1910). The Addicks were scornful of women; they did not know what to do with them. Except for Nico they all remained single. But Nico had three children: a son (who died a few weeks ago) and two daughters. One lives in Eindhoven and the other is Anneke, who happens to be in the telephone book with her maiden name. In retrospect it is a miracle that I have found a relative of Joop Addicks!
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In 1855, grandfather Johannes Hermanus Addicks (after whom Joop is named) received the honourable assignment from the [Amsterdam] city council to maintain the city tower bells and the accompanying European carillons. This meant weekly climbs to the towers of the many churches in the city to wind the bells and in some cases to amplify the music. The Westertoren [West Church], the Oudekerkstoren [Old Church], the Munttoren [Mint Tower] and the Zuidertoren [South Church]. He immediately started with a sensation: Addicks introduced clocks with two hands [see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clock... taking into account the advent of railroad transportation] and the minute hand was added; before that you could roughly estimate the time with one hand. He also illuminated the dials. ..'
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from 'Rotterdam Chess 26 No.2 2007', 'De KNSB competitie' by Rob von Dongen 🍆💦
(in Dutch)
'.. World War II reinvoked the agency of Christian bells as the Germans requisitioned their metal under the motto “Metal mobilization: Bells join the fight for a new Europe.” The Dutch and Belgians found ways to resist musical censorship and confiscations, using the polysemic nature of carillon music to safely perform resistance in public space. The confiscation was halted just short of organ pipes, but Hitler dreamed to the end of the monumental memorial carillon he planned in Linz [Austria], which would play his favorite Bruckner symphony [No.7] theme [2. Adagio]. The wartime loss of 175000 bells weighing 100 million pounds throughout Europe made space for two innovations: the foundation of the influential, research-intensive Dutch carillon foundry Eijsbouts, and the American invention of bell-free electronic carillons as affordable solutions to postwar expansion during a metal shortage. ..'
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from 'A New History of the Carillon' by Tiffany Ng, 2015
J.H. Addicks (1819-1907, horologist)
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(in Dutch)
Big bells
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