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Item
Title
D853-1A
Date(s)
- 1937-11-04 (Creation)
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Name of creator
(1919-1980)
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In November of 1937 Lewis Law, 1610 North 6th Street in Tacoma, finished work on the violin that he had started making around 1931. The head utility man at the Pierce County Courthouse, and a musician, he had always wanted a violin of his own. He purchased a small supply of California sugar-pine, and when not repairing courthouse equipment or playing the organ, he was busy in his workshop with chisels and saw. He worked all of the pieces with the exception of the scroll, tail piece and strings. An accomplished organist, Mr. Law installed the 5,000 pipe organ at the First Presbyterian Church, 20 Tacoma Avenue South. (T. Times 11/4/1937, p.8)
Law, Lewis; Violins;