HallOfFame-WilliamGoldesSr

<body topmargin=0 leftmargin=0 marginheight=0 marginwidth=0> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0><tr> <td valign="top" height=62 BGCOLOR="#BBBBBB" TEXT="#080000"> <div> <FONT SIZE="5" COLOR="#000066" FACE="Times New Roman" ><B>The Balalaika and Domra Association of America</B></FONT><FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#000066" FACE="Times New Roman" ><B> </B></FONT><FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#FFFFCC" FACE="Times New Roman" ><B>  </B></FONT><B>  |    </B><FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#003333" FACE="Arial" ><B> </B></FONT><A HREF="index.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="The Balalaika and Domra Association of A"><FONT COLOR="#003333"><B>Home</B></FONT></A></div> <div> <B>RETURN TO   </B><A HREF="bdaa_study_tours_84.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="THE BDAA HALL OF FAME "><FONT COLOR="#000066"><B>BDAA Hall of Fame</B></FONT></A><B>   </B></div> </td> </tr><tr> <td valign="top" height=418 BGCOLOR="#EEEEEE" TEXT="#080000"> <div> <I><B>The BDAA Hall of Fame ~ William Goldes Sr. </B></I></div> <div> <TABLE BORDER="10" CELLPADDING="2" CELLSPACING="1" WIDTH="686" BORDERCOLORLIGHT="#C0C0C0" BORDERCOLORDARK="#808080" FRAME="BOX" RULES="ALL" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" BGCOLOR=#0000BF > <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 314 ><NOBR><div> <TABLE BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="9" CELLSPACING="1" WIDTH="651" BORDERCOLORLIGHT="#C0C0C0" BORDERCOLORDARK="#808080" FRAME="BOX" RULES="ALL" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" BGCOLOR=#EEEEEE > <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 283 WIDTH="631"><div> <B>WILLIAM GOLDES SR. - 1979</B></div> <bR> <div>      William Goldes, Sr. of St. Claire Shores, Michigan was dedicated to making the music he never heard as a boy in the Russian province of Kaminetz Poddolski.  Goldes fled from Russia during the Czarist regime in 1913.  Goldes was famed and sought after from as far as California for his handcrafted Russian Balalaikas, </div> <bR> <div>      Oddly, Goldes did not begin his instrument making until after 1923.  Prior to that Goldes had worked as a blacksmith in Canada.  His six-year stay there was terminated however when Goldes immigrated to the United States in an effort to be more conveniently located near a Russian school.  </div> <bR> <div>      In 1923 Goldes and a group of other Russian immigrants began meeting socially.  Goldes began learning music and later that year the group formed the Detroit Balalaika Orchestra.  After they were organized a few years, they found there was no one to make repairs on the instruments.  The dilemma presented an opportunity for Goldes to make use of his natural talent and liking for wood working.  Goldes began making repairs himself.  An introduction to a Russian balalaika maker visiting Detroit three years later ended with Goldes learning the craftsman's trade.  Goldes worked to fashion only the finest woods into balalaikas and domras, all of which sported hand cut pearl inlay and many of which are still played today.  </div> </tD> </tR> </TABLE></div> <div> .</div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> </TABLE></div> <bR> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>