Word: dolmetsch
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Other groups with the same idea: England's Dolmetsch family, and Henri Casadesus' Societe des Instruments Anciens in Paris, with which Stad studied...
...England's world-famed Dolmetsch family, who made and played harpsichords at Haslemere, have long since turned to defense work...
...Ypsilanti 36 years ago, the son of a jeweler and watchmaker. While at Michigan State Normal College (where he studied piano and organ), he heard his first clavichord, decided to make one. His handiwork was so successful that he went to England to study ancient instruments with Arnold Dolmetsch...
...violin, or with other recorders. There are four kinds: soprano, alto, tenor, bass, the last surprisingly weak and whiskey-voiced for its three-foot length. Until five years ago, most recorders were made in Germany or England. The English revival had been started by the late untidy-bearded Arnold Dolmetsch, musical antiquary. One of his pupils, Margaret Bradford (who now helps run the American Recorder Society), got a Haverhill. N.H. cabinetmaker named William F. Koch to make some. Now Manufacturer Koch turns hard, red cocobolo wood into 90% of the recorders sold in the U.S. All a recorder maker needs...