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Charles Verne Edquist |
| Fødsel |
10 jan. 1931 |
Willow Creek No. 458, Saskatchewan, Canada  |
Adresse:
Fairy Glen |
- Søn af Carl Ferdinand (Charley) Edquist og Thea Staaf.
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 Nekrolog |
2020 [1] |
- "Passed away peacefully on Thursday August 27, 2020 surrounded by love at the age of 89. Beloved husband of Lillian (Lilholt) for 63 years. Loving father to Carl (Sheila), Marilyn (Bill), Eric (Alex) and Graham (Patty). Proud grandfather of Hans, Leif, Emily, Neil, Grace (Adnan), Aileen (Kyle), Pfeiffer, Remi, Maren and the late Anders. Great grandfather to Nahla, Idris, Owais, Cara, Evelyn and Charlotte. Predeceased by his parents, Carl Ferdinand (Charles) and Thea Emily (Staff) Edquist and his sisters Elsie and Jane and brothers Johnny and Roy. Verne will be missed by many nieces, nephews and friends. He will be remembered as a true gentleman with a curious nature and a big heart. Verne left his home in Saskatchewan at the age of 8 to attend the Ontario School for the Blind where he learned the art of Piano Tuning. He was a member of the Ontario Guild of Piano Technicians where he gave instruction in Piano Tuning and Tone Regulating. Verne’s skills provided many opportunities for travel to New York, Chicago, Hong Kong, Montreal, Halifax and Ottawa where he tuned at the National Arts Centre. Verne is best known for his work as Glenn Gould’s piano tuner. He appreciated all of the interesting people that crossed his path and enriched his life."
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| Død |
27 aug. 2020 |
Toronto, Ontario, Canada |
| Levned |
1 okt. 2020 [2] |
- (Uddag af lang nekrolog i NYT:
"Mr. Edquist was born with congenital cataracts; an operation improved his sight but still left it impaired. He was sent to the Ontario School for the Blind in Brantford, where, bedridden with scarlet fever as a 13-year-old, he was intrigued by a sound that drifted through the infirmary windows — the sound of a piano being tuned. He signed up for tuning classes when he was well again.
He moved to Toronto when he graduated and found a job in a piano factory, tuning freshly strung instruments. He also began attending a Lutheran church, where he met and married another parishioner, Lillian Lilholt. She died on Sept. 20. Besides their son Carl, they are survived by a daughter, Marilyn Trenbeth; two other sons, Eric and Graham; nine grandchildren; and six great-grandchildren.
He prepared the pianos for well-known musicians, among them Gina Bachauer, Victor Borge, Duke Ellington, Arthur Rubinstein, Andras Schiff, Rudolf Serkin and Liberace. But he was chiefly known as the personal tuner for the famously eccentric virtuoso Glenn Gould, whose pianos Mr. Edquist nurtured from the 1960s to the early ’80s, making exacting adjustments that shaped the sounds heard on Gould’s recordings." (James Barron)
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| Beskæftigelse |
Klaverstemmer |
| Person-ID |
I20440 |
Simon |
| Sidst ændret |
6 maj 2023 |
Om slægterne Brændgaard & Heilesen
1931 - 2020 (89 år)