[1][2] Blom served as the carillonneur of the Sint Janskerk in Gouda from 1943-1985, and also played in IJsselstein and Kamerik.
[3][4] In a 1960 interview for a women’s magazine, Blom recounted how her private teacher Ferdinand Timmermans temporarily ceased teaching her, given that she had little hope of being accepted to the Royal Carillon School "Jef Denyn" as a woman.
[5] Unruffled, she hosted a summer concert series one year of exclusively women performers.
She also established Gouda's famed Candle Night tradition with mobile carillon.
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