Kimball, Maxwell - Correspondence
Abstract/Contents
- Description
- Correspondence: with CMH
Description
| Type of resource | mixed material |
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| Date created | 1956 - 1966 |
| Language | English |
| Digital origin | reformatted digital |
Creators/Contributors
| Creator | Kimball, Maxwell |
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Bibliographic information
| Biographical note | An architect, sculptor and musician who had stayed an architect during the 1929 depression by making a violin and two violas from information in books and the help of a local violin maker, (as well as working with his wife to raise chickens and a big garden). He was also a naturalist, amateur astronomer, and avid bird watcher who made his own telescopes. Kimball and CMH met when they were both exhibitors at a hobby show in Glen Ridge (the next town to Montclair) where he lived. This started a long association of mutual interests from quartet playing to bird watching and violin making. Kimball became particularly interested in making violin bows and exploring methods of measuring their physical properties, including the dimensional changes along the stick, bending characteristics, centers of percussion and gravity which he measured with great precision on many bows of different qualities. Some of his technical writings and measurements are included here as well as in the Newsletter of the CAS. He worked with Louis Condax at one point and made a drawing of the cello podium which Condax had developed for Howard Hanson at the Eastman School of Music. The famous cellist, Maurice Eisenberg used this podium in several concerts with the New Jersey Symphony and was delighted with it. See photo of Kimball and Eisenberg, also a copy of the drawing which was published in the CASNL. Efforts to explain the acoustical effectiveness of this podium have not as yet met with success. But it works! Kimball's greatest contribution to the CAS was in helping CMH to develop the design of the new instruments of the Violin Octet, once the basic acoustics had been worked out. He also designed and supervised the building of the large garage-workshop at 112 Essex where over 100 of the Octet instruments have been built. |
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| Location | https://purl.stanford.edu/wy385mk2999 |
| Location | M1711 |
| Repository | Stanford University. Libraries. Department of Special Collections and University Archives |
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