Grandpa and the Violin

I asked Dad (Don) today what he remembered about Grandpa and the violin. He said that when Grandpa was just out of high school, he got appendicitis. While he was recovering, he couldn't help on the farm, so his dad sent him to St. Michael's College in Kansas for a year to study. One of the things that he learned there was how to play the violin and played with the music students there. Then when he came back to Carroll, he would play with different orchestras for church groups or at dance halls. He would play with Norbert Stork (Grandma's brother) who also played the violin. Dad said he doesn't remember Grandpa playing the violin when they were kids; every once in a while he would take it out and run the bow across the strings, but it was like he was trying to remember how to play it. He played the harmonica also, but didn't play this much when they were kids either. Too bad it wasn't something he kept up; that would have been neat to here.