Marianne, at age 14, playing the harpsichord she made by hand, from a kit, at Saint Paul's United Church of Christ. Interesting story behind her building of the instrument. When she had finished it (the first time - hint, hint, hint) it did not fit. She had been sold a misfit. Our father, who likes to saw and bones suggested he could saw it down and make it fit.
"Oh, no thanks, Dad," Marianne replied.
"I paid for a perfectly fitting instrument and I will get it!"
So, she did, and she did.
Marianne developed her love of wood-working from our grandfather, Dale Hockett, a train conductor on the Rock Island Line, who taught her how to whittle.
Her disappointment with the ill-fitting first time run had her emotionally set to deal with what happened after Master Lee inspected the first violin she made, at age 18, at the Lee School of Violin Making, in Chicago.
Master Lee inspected it, and then broke it over his knee. "Fix this," he said, and she did!
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