February 18, 2014

Daily Tribune profiles retired WSU physics professor turned fiddler

As a physics professor at Wayne State University, Talbert Stein had no time for fiddling around. When he retired 10 years ago, the Huntington Woods resident found he could pursue the things he always wanted to do. Stein, 73, picked up the fiddle after setting it aside for 45 years and rediscovered his passion for music. He recently won a composing music contest sponsored by Fiddler magazine. Not bad for a former professor who took up playing the fiddle again after retiring. "When I entered college to study physics, I put the violin aside," Stein said. "I played since I was 8 years old through Detroit Public Schools and Detroit Cass Tech. I always had a love for music."

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