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Stan Passier worked at Kessels, making musical instruments. His Son Jan Passier also worked there from 1914 to 1939 but because of World War II and the consequent shortage of raw materials for making musical instruments the factory went bankrupt.

Jan Passier established his own music business. He bought instruments, tools, products and raw materials from Kessels and made brass and woodwind instruments and drums.

The son of Jan Passier, L.F.J. Passier, (1937 - 2001), took over the business in 1966. He developed it into a large music shop which he moved to Veldhovenring in 1979. He had two shops: one for brass and woodwind instruments, the other for drums. In 1986 he established the Museum of Musical Instruments because he had all the workbenches, tools and musical instruments from the Kessels factory. The Museum is called Muzima and only has limited space to exhibit but they are working hard on getting a new location to tell the Kessels story and show all the instruments and factory inventory.

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