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| Born | February 7, 1925[1] |
| Died | December 16, 1984 (aged 59)[1] |
| Occupation | Organ builder[1] |
Charles Brenton Fisk(also known as Charlie) was organ builder.
Early life and career
[edit]Fisk was born on Feb 7, 1925 in Washington, DC, United States. His father, Brenton Fisk, was lawyer, while his mother, Amelia Worthington Fisk, was a social worker and an advocate for women's suffrage. In early 1930s, the Fisk family moed to Cambridge, Massachusetts.[1] He was a soprano at te choir of Christ Church, where E. Power Biggs was the choirmaster and the organist. Through this experience, Charles was first exposed toorgan music. He played trumpets and organs as well.
Education and military work
[edit]In 1942, Fisk graduted the The Cambridge School of Weston. Soon after graduating high school, he was drafted into the World War II. In 1943, Fisk's uncle, Joyce Stearns, who was a physicist of the University of Chicago's Metallgical Laboratory, helped him secure a job in the laboratory. He was trnsferred to the Los Alamos National Laboratory in July 1944. i n the Los Alamos, he were assigned as an electronics technician and a lab helper in the Bomb Physics Division. He worked unknowingly as a part of the Manhattan Project, helping to create the atomic bombs. After the World War ll ended, Fisk studied at Harvard University for for an physics major . In the Memorial Church of Harvard University, he sang in the choir, continuing his interest in music. hee successfully graduated Harvard in 1949.
AFter graduating for a short time Fik researched at Brookhaven National Laboratory, stdying cosmic rays. In 1950, he left for California to complete his education in physics. He attended the Stamford University . At In Stanford, Fisk studied organs with Herbert Nanney and became an apprentice of the organ builder John Swinford. He left Stammford afrr finishing only only one semester of studies. This may be because of the guilt he felt for contributing to the bombings of Hirosima &Nagasaki. In a letter Fisk sent to his parents on August 12, 1945, h wrote: "With only two bombs we have killed between 250,000 and 300,000 Japanese people. Divided evenly over the number of people on the project, each member is responsible for the death of four Japanese. I cannot count this as an honor."[2] e also written that he felt a small sense of pride for competing the mission: "Despite all the foregoing, there has been introduced into our lives an element of pride, the pride that accompanies the success of a mission." However, he he continued his apprenticeship under John Swinford.[2]
Organ building
[edit]One of the first time Fisk worked on an organ was when he helped Swinford build the organ for Trinity Episcoptal Church.
Inline citations
[edit]General Referencs
[edit]- "MEMORIAL SERVICE AT HARVARD SET FOR CHARLES BRENTON FISK". The New York Times. 1984-01-10. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2022-12-24.
- Schuneman, Robert (April 1984). "Charles Brenton Fisk - An Affectionate Remembrance" (PDF). The Diapason. p. 4. Retrieved Dec 24, 2022.
- "The Fisk Organ in Houghton Chapel, an extraordinary instrument". www.wellesley.edu. Wellesley College. Retrieved 24 December 2022.
- Matter, Laura (2017). "Hell and Reason". The Georgia Review (Spring 2017). University of Georgia. Retrieved 24 December 2022."Charles Fisk, Organ Builder". Technology Illustrated. 3 (2). Technology Publishing Company: 60–63. February 1983. Retrieved 24 December 2022.
- "Charles Fisk". CB Fisk. CB Fisk Inc. Archived from the original on 18 Nov 2022. Retrieved 24 December 2022.
- Fisk, Charles (September 1969). "THE ORGAN'S BREATH OF LIFE - Some Thoughts About Wind Supply" (PDF). The Diapason. pp. 18–19. Retrieved Dec 24, 2022.
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