Robert Hunter wasn't famous. The man who lived in Far West Texas didn't make a name for himself as an instrument-maker — but he does have a legacy. | mattlargey
Robert Hunter wasn't famous. The man who lived in Far West Texas didn't make a name for himself as an instrument-maker, but he does have a legacy.Ever since he was a young man, Robert loved to make things."And he would carve things, whittle in school and the teacher would have to take his knife away from him," says Lurline Hunter, Robert's wife.
Robert would go to fiddle shows, fiddle contests — his favorite player was Junior Daugherty. He loved the song"After one of those contests, Robert got it into his head that he wanted to build a fiddle. No one can quite remember exactly when that was — sometime in the '70s, probably. But he had no ideato build one. So he bought a book,"How to Make Your Own Violin" by Leroy Geiger, and got to work.
After he died, his daughter, Susie, went to stay with her mom where Lurline and Robert lived out in Seminole, Texas, near the New Mexico border. They came across the unfinished violin. They couldn't just get rid of it, of course. So Suzie brought it back to Georgetown where she and her husband, John, live.
He worked off and on for a year, assembling the pieces he had and making the ones that he didn't. Finally, last month — on Labor Day — Robert's family gathered in Georgetown for the big reveal.They invited Rick McRae, who played guitar for country star George Strait, to test it out. The family sat on big cushy couches and leaned in to hear what this fiddle — 50 years in the making — sounded like.
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