Mrs. Roebuck smilingly declined and began suddenly to go on about her son, who was `` onleh a little younguh than you bawhs ''.

Go, tell his aged mother that her son Fought with a thousand foes, and he was one ''.

But his prime interest, apart from music, he insisted seriously, was his family -- his wife, daughter and son.

Joseph Jastrow, the younger son of the distinguished rabbi, Marcus Jastrow, was a friendly, round-faced fellow with a little mustache, whose field was psychology, and who was also a punster and a jolly tease.

With her son evidencing so strong a musical bent his mother could do little else but get him started on the study of music -- though she waited until he was ten -- beginning with the piano and following that with the trumpet.

He was the son of a Scottish father and an American Jewish mother, long widowed, with whom he lived in a comfortable home in Flushing.

The Coolidges' life, after the death of their son, was quieter than ever.

Even when Mrs. Coolidge was in mourning for her son, she reached out to help other people in trouble.

On April 10, 1904, his first child was born, a son named George after the late Senator.

If his circumspection in regard to Philip's sensibilities went so far that he even refused to grant a dispensation for the marriage of Amadee's daughter, Agnes, to the son of the dauphin of Vienne -- a truly peacemaking move according to thirteenth-century ideas, for Savoy and Dauphine were as usual fighting on opposite sides -- for fear that he might seem to be favoring the anti-French coalition, he would certainly never take the far more drastic step of ordering the return of Gascony to Edward, even though, as he admitted to the English ambassadors, he had been advised that the original cession was invalid.

Alfred, who was a good deal older than Harry, had treated him like a son, and when Harry decided to stay in business with Lew instead of going with Alfred, Alfred looked on the decision as a betrayal.

Bridges, a son by his second wife, was christened at Pebworth in 1607, but Thomas the younger was living at Packwood two years later and sold Broad Marston manor in 1622.

Adrian Quiney wrote to his son Richard on October 29 and again perhaps the next day, since the bearer of the letter, the bailiff, was expected to reach London on November 1.

Now he was married to a beautiful girl, had a small son, and lived in an expensive apartment and worked for the movies.

Mr. McKinley, for all his sprawling and his easy familiarity, was completely alert to his son, eyes always on the still face, jumping to anticipate Scotty's desires.

His first desire was to create a mother and son alone in the universe.

her son was dead.

But at the end of the sitting, when Michelangelo showed him the quick, free drawings, with the mother roughed in, holding her son, the model grasped what Michelangelo was after, and promised to speak to his friends.

Hino was the fourth son of an elderly farmer who lived on the coast, in Chiba, and divided his life between the land and the sea, supplementing the marginal livelihood on his small rented farm with seasonal employment on a fishing boat.

Carpenters all wanted steady work and at the moment every mother's son for twenty miles around that could hammer nails for twenty-five dollars a day was working on the school job.

When Richard's parents told him they wanted to take him to an orthodontist -- a dentist who specializes in realigning teeth and jaws -- their young son was interested.

O'Banion was born in poverty, the son of an immigrant Irish plasterer, in the North Side's Little Hell, close by the Sicilian quarter and Death Corner.

While Paganini was still a teenager in Livorno, a wealthy businessman named Livron lent him a violin, made by the master luthier Giuseppe Guarneri, for a concert.

In late 2006, the license to build Rickenbacker acoustics was granted to Paul Wilczynski, a luthier with a workshop in San Francisco, California.

His father, Augustin Lavallée, was accomplished in many trades, including those of blacksmith, logger, bandmaster, and self-taught luthier.

Reg was a wood machinist, and Bill a jazz musician, woodwork teacher and luthier who had for some years operated a custom guitar building and repair business under the name Maton Stringed Instruments and Repairs.

Holdsworth's first solo album of the decade was 1992's Wardenclyffe Tower, which continued to feature the SynthAxe but also displayed his newfound interest in self-designed baritone guitars built by luthier Bill DeLap.

The only wood harvested from the tree was used by Nova Scotia luthier George Rizsanyi and broadcaster Jowi Taylor to make a guitar dedicated to Canadian history.

The Gibson L-5 guitar was first produced in 1922 by Gibson Guitar Corporation, then of Kalamazoo, Michigan, USA under the direction of master luthier Lloyd Loar, and has been in production ever since.

His son Nicolò ( 1596 – 1684 ), was himself an important master luthier who had several apprentices of note including Antonio Stradivari ( probably ), Andrea Guarneri, Bartolomeo Cristofori, Bartolomeo Pasta, Jacob Railich, Giovanni Battista Rogeri, Matthias Klotz and possibly Jacob Stainer.

The other important early luthier of the violin family, of whiche we have 80 instruments and about hundred documents on his work is Gasparo da Salò of Brescia ( Italy ) that was also a double bass player, son and nephew of two violin players Francesco and Agostino, also experts of appreciation of instruments.

The first solidbody seven-string electric guitar was possibly an instrument conceived by Lenny Breau and built by the Californian luthier Kirk Sand in 1982.

Weller's detailed account of Simon's love affair with guitarist and luthier, Dan Armstrong, provides overwhelming evidence that he was in fact the inspiration for her classic hit, You're So Vain.

The last luthier of Arthur Grumiaux was Antoni Jassogne ( Brussels ).

Antonio de Torres Jurado ( Almería, Andalucía 13 June 1817 – 19 November 1892 ) was a Spanish guitarist and luthier, and " the most important Spanish guitar maker of the 19th century.

The coveted Carrodus violin made by Italian luthier, Guarneri Del Gesu in 1743 was said to have belonged to Carrodus.

The Höfner company was founded by luthier Karl Höfner in the city of Schönbach in 1887, at a time when the city, later to become Czech, was German.

Giovanni Battista Guadagnini ( or G. B. Guadagnini ; Giambattista Guadagnini ); ( June 23, 1711 – September 18, 1786 ) was an Emiliano luthier, regarded as one of the finest craftsmen of string instruments in history.

He was the son of luthier C. L. Collin, and father of Charles Collin-Mezin, Jr., also a luthier.

Early models have a large, D-shaped soundhole ( the " grande bouche ", or " big mouth "), which was shaped specifically to accommodate an internal resonator invented by luthier Mario Maccaferri-this was designed to increase the volume of the guitar and to even out variations in volume and tone between different strings.

The first successful design, built by luthier Gerry Gardner, went into production soon after the company was established.

According to Nesmith, there was a luthier in Los Angeles that converted six string electric guitars into twelve string guitars.

Martin Leopold Widhalm ( October 2, 1722 – June 10, 1776 ) was an Austrian luthier.