Fletcher, William Harvey - Correspondence F6160-101
Abstract/Contents
- Description
- Correspondence: involving Grace Louise Clark, W H Fletcher, William Harvey Fletcher Jr., Louise Maley Hogan, Carleen Hutchins and Maud Alice Sauter
Description
| Type of resource | mixed material |
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| Date created | 1931 - 1965 |
| Language | English |
| Digital origin | reformatted digital |
Creators/Contributors
| Creator | Fletcher, William Harvey |
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Bibliographic information
| Biographical/Historical note | Uncle of Carleen Hutchins (mother's brother, father's brother in-law, and father of Donald A. Fletcher) who made violins for many years as a hobby (at least 200). Carleen Hutchins never saw his actual working set up for he had moved to Houston, Texas from Brooklyn before Carleen Hutchins became interested in string instruments. When Carleen Hutchins needed a viola she wrote to him asking if he would make her one. He replied that he only knew how to make violins, not violas, and suggested that she get in touch with his violin maker in NYC and try making one herself. After discussions with husband and family, Carleen Hutchins went to the violin maker, C. Meisel at 4 St Marks Place in the Bowery in NYC, bought a set of wood, a blueprint of a viola and a book ("Violin Making as it Was and Is" Ed Heron-Allen) and got started. The work took two years of carefully reading the book with occasional comments from Fletcher, the violin maker who spoke little English (Meisel had died and his wife was running the shop), and a salesman at Wurlitzer's. When it was done, the viola was rated the work of a good carpenter and was the only one that CMH planned to make! |
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| Finding aid | |
| Location | https://purl.stanford.edu/jr091fp8218 |
| Location | M1711 |
| Repository | Stanford University. Libraries. Department of Special Collections and University Archives |
Access conditions
- Use and reproduction
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Collection
Musical Acoustics Research Library collection, 1956-2007
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