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The Catgut Acoustical Society Library |
| File #: | K9350 |
| Name: | Kroll, William |
| Dates: | 1901-1980 |
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| General Information: |
| Well known violinist and a leading figure in American chamber music was leader of the Coolidge String |
| Quartet and in 1945 founded his own Kroll Quartet. CMH got to know him through her friend, Helen |
| Rice (one of the early instigators of the Amateur Chamber Music Players) and spent many evenings |
| listening to him play quartets in her studio on W. 67th street. When CMH had made about a dozen |
| instruments, she and her husband took them to Kroll for comment. He finally selected one and said |
| "This one has it," and described the full tone and vibrations that could be felt through the shoulder, etc. |
| So she went home and took it apart to try to find out what made it work so well, thus learning the |
| beginning of plate tuning. Later CMH took a viola to Kroll for a student at a time when the quartet was |
| rehearsing in his studio. David Mankovitz, the violist of the quartet tried it; Kroll tried it; and Mankovitz |
| bought it on the spot! Mankovitz played it for over ten years in the quartet, beside Kroll's Ernst |
| Stradivarius. Record jackets of the quartet said "Mankovitz owns an Amati viola, but uses a modern one |
| here for its superior recording properties." |
| File Contents: |
| K9350 | -- | 101 |
| Correspondence: (1959-1978) involving CMH, Pearl Kroll and William Kroll. Xmas cards. |
| Miscellaneous: Flyers and concert programs for the Kroll Quartet. Article from Mannes College 1973, |
| NY Times obit 1980. |
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