Chester Dewitt Mann, born December, 1st 1914 to a bridge architect Chester Mann. He died in 1999.
He attended Eastman School of Music where he received a Doctorate of Music in History and Theory. He later completed a masters degree in mathematics.
He was a radio corpsman during WWII.
After the war while teaching at St. Ambrose College in Davenport, Iowa he met and married Louise Jean Bernat also a teacher and concert pianist trained at Julliard.
Chester moved to St. Louis, Missouri in 1953 with Louise and three small children, Paul, Larry and Robert. He obtained employment at McDonnell Aircraft doing flutter analysis and aerodynamics.
In 1968 the family moved to Orange County California where he worked at what was now McDonnell-Douglas. Shortly after a heart attack in 1969 he retired from aerospace work and went back to tuning pianos.
Late in his life he completed what had been his doctors dissertation. That is this book: "Analytic Study of Harmonic Intervals".
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