Many Our magazine about brick and architecture. Petersen Tegl's bricks are frost resistant. Petersen Kolumba™ is a range of handmade, horizontal building ceramics. We’ll be able to play every tune in the Western classical canon then!”“Percussion on natural stone – the lithophone – goes all the way back to Antiquity. Each Kolumba brick costs around $6, 12 times as much as a regular brick, according to a Wall Street Journal profile. Available in 30 colours.A 100% handmade brick product for facades and roofs. He jumped up from his seat and onto the stage pulling behind him a xylophone with keys made of Kolumba bricks, which Malte Magnus Nielsen Vendelby then played beautifully the rest of the way through the piece.Bjarne Rasmussen, the chair of the orchestra board, came up with the idea. Why A Petersen Gruppen Brick Costs 10 Times A Regular Brick He had spotted a Kolumba xylophone on a visit to the brickworks a few years ago. Petersen Cover™, also 100% handmade, is a tile product developed for covering roofs and facades. Priced at the more expensive end of the scale, these exclusive bricks are water struck and coal-fired, a process which adds vibrant light and dark shades.Architects Stiff + Trevillion were looking for something really unique for the facade of a redeveloped office block on Islington’s busy Pentonville Road. You can Please sign up here to receive our regular newsletter We are UK agents for Petersen, Vande Moortel and Roben. More than half of Petersen Tegl’s range consists of 100% handmade products, including the world-famous Kolumba™. Brick buildings are a good environmental, social and financial investment.Vibeke Petersen, chair of the board, and Christian A. Petersen, the eighth and seventh generations at Petersen Tegl, respectively, attending the New Year Concert.Christian A. Petersen about to come to the rescue of percussionist Malte Magnus Nielsen Vendelby.Percussionist Malte Magnus Nielsen Vendelby concentrating on Champagne Galop.The audience applauding the South Denmark Philharmonic.Flautist Bettina Zielke Jorgensen, Christian A. Petersen and violinist Jette Skovbakke Steensen.No decision has yet been made on what to call the Kolumba xylophone. This year’s programme 8 January in the Alsion concert hall was conducted by Ari Rasilainen. The latter two are seen here. Find the right person to talk to here.We welcome you to our showrooms in cities across Europe, in Melbourne and in Moscow.Our brickworks has made brick and custom solutions for nine generations since 1791.We work closely with architects, construction clients and artists from all over the world.The South Denmark Philharmonic’s New Year Concert is always a big draw in Sønderborg. The bricks’ height and width were fixed, so the lengths had to be adjusted until the keys played the nine tones. The brick instrument had to be finely tuned before it was ready to make its Philharmonic debut. Waterstruck, coal-fired bricks. Made in the formats DNF, FF and HF and in 39 colours.The original 100% handmade Kolumba™. Melodious Kolumba Christian A. Petersen, the owner of Petersen Tegl, came to the rescue when the South Denmark Philharmonic suddenly found itself short of a xylophone.
They specified three coal-fired Petersen bricks in whitish, light-grey and black-grey shades and the building now has a facade that sings.Petersen publish a magazine of product and project news twice yearly. For brickwork and tiling. We primarily use clay from the brickworks' local surroundings where clay has been dug for brick production for several hundred years. Published twice a year in three languages.Current news and stories about architecture and events from Petersen Tegl.Architects and clients are welcome to write to us and come and see the many brick possibilities. Nowadays, a lithophone costs approximately DKK 2,500 per key. The company exports all over the world and European Building Materials is its UK agent.The high calibre bricks are either handmade, or made by machines that emulate the handmade process. We’ve decided to keep working on the Kolumba xylophone and expand it to 24 tones above two octaves. Handmade and glazed brick in bespoke formats and colours.Consultancy on and delivery of complete solutions for spans above brickwork openings.Technical information, data sheets, guides and textures for all products.Projects with Petersen Tegl from all over the world. It included a bouquet of operatic arias and duets by Gitta-Maria Sjöberg (soprano) and Niels Jørgen Riis (tenor).As the evening drew to a close, the audience was treated to an amusing surprise with a dash of local colour. Our consultants are always ready to help you. The German composer Carl Orff used it in some of his early-20th-century works. Suggestions include lithophone and brickophone.Petersen employees Eddie Schwarz and Kim Moos collaborated with timpanist Henrik Cornelius Hansen to ensure that the instrument played a perfect A-major scale.
The finale was the Danish composer Hans ChristianChristian A. Petersen came to the rescue. The process adds vibrant colours in pale and dark shades to the waterstruck brick. The South Denmark Philharmonic’s New Year Concert is always a big draw in Sønderborg.