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Pfc Fred Morgan noticed the nearby Ordnance Machine Shop when his platoon, the 3rd,stopped to wait for Calhoung’s force to join them as the company moved back to Topside the morning of 19 February. He went to look in the Ordance Machine Shop and was killed by a Japanes force of over twenty hiding in the structure. F Company lost another good soldier.
When the recorder virtuoso and conductor Frans Br
In 1970, with the aid of a Churchill Fellowship, he visited Europe and the United States to measure and make detailed technical drawings of original recorders in museums and private collections. His profound insights gained from these studies became the foundation of his craft as a maker of fine instruments. He also had some recorder lessons with Br
When Fredc’s recorders featured prominently in performances at the inaugural Bruges International Early Music Competition in 1972, his future as a recorder maker was spectacularly secured. Six players used low-pitch Morgan soprano recorders for the Sammartini concerto. Within days his workshop, then in Fitzroy, Melbourne, was inundated with international orders.
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