As reported by the Baltimore Sun:
Walter A. Lawson, a nationally recognized French horn maker and a former Baltimore Symphony Orchestra musician, died Wednesday of heart disease at Reeders Memorial Home in Boonsboro. The former Catonsville resident was 84.
A 1999 Sun profile said, "Walter Lawson and his boys help others make beautiful music. In their hands, fat rolls of sheet metal and long tubes of copper become the graceful curves and polished bells of some of the world's finest French horns."
His horns each took 187 hours to make. His son Paul, a machinist, built the valves. Another son, Duane, polished and lacquered surfaces. Bruce, the acoustician, made sure each horn had the Lawson signature sound, the article noted.
Services will be held at 11 a.m. June 27 at the Bast Funeral Home, 7606 Old National Pike, Boonsboro.
