Hube graduated 1926 from Bryan [Ohio] High School.
In 1927 he came to Wenatchee where he lived for seven years, then returned to Indiana where he established the Artley Manufacturing Co. makers of fine musical instruments. Soure: Willodene Gonderman Artley, his wife.
He was also a machinist and orchardist.
Hube started the Artley flute manufacturing business which is still in business today (1994). Uncle Hube and his uncle [Donald D. Artley] who began the detailed manufacturing of four to five flutes a week in an old church building in Elkhart, Ind. in 1940. They had spent the previous year manufacturing fine tools to use in their factory. The tools were made at night in their basements. Hube was then employed in a clarinet factory and was a fine machinist. Many of the tools used in his flute factory were inventions of his own, created for greater precision or better handling.
Artley never played the flute, and until the factory was begun, had never worked on them. His uncle played a little, and had worked on flutes before. This apparent lack of knowledge was not important however, the importance lying in an understanding of accuracy and precision that made a better instrument.
Artley recognized a market for cheaper flutes and although production was slow at first, business began to pick up as more people became interested in learning to play the instrument.
Mrs. Artley [Willodene] believes it was the availability of this inexpensive flute that made it so popular in the schools at the time.
The first Artley factory started with only six men and continued production for a few years until the war [World War II] shortages, especially a lack of silver, forced them to shut down operations. After the war a new factory was built in Elkhart. Much of the work done on the flutes then was by hand, but the Artleys still managed to keep the cost down.
Two kinds of flutes were made, sterling silver flutes, used mainly by professionals and a silver-plated one made of a cheaper metal tubing, usually nickel, and sent away to be plated with silver. It was this last group of flutes that was made especially for students, and were the mainstay of the business.
Hube sold his portion of the business to his uncle Don Artley.
Hube returned to Wenatchee in 1953 to buy an orchard and grow apples.
His brother W. R. Artley, is raising his family here ahd has a daughter, Sharon, who is playing an Artley flute. She took up the instrument in the fifth grade and is now continuing in high school and studying with Beth Ann Ward, local flute instructor. Source: Willodene Artley and was published in the Wenatchee World, 8/19/1973.
Hube also worked full time at VanDoren Sales, Wenatchee, as a machinist. Source: Wenatchee World, Hube's obituary.
He was a member of the E. Wenatchee Grange and the Lake Chelan Yacht Club. He attended Trinity Methodist Church, E. Wenatchee.
Cause of death=kidney and lung cancer.
In 1927 he came to Wenatchee where he lived for seven years, then returned to Indiana where he established the Artley Manufacturing Co. makers of fine musical instruments. Soure: Willodene Gonderman Artley, his wife.
He was also a machinist and orchardist.
Hube started the Artley flute manufacturing business which is still in business today (1994). Uncle Hube and his uncle [Donald D. Artley] who began the detailed manufacturing of four to five flutes a week in an old church building in Elkhart, Ind. in 1940. They had spent the previous year manufacturing fine tools to use in their factory. The tools were made at night in their basements. Hube was then employed in a clarinet factory and was a fine machinist. Many of the tools used in his flute factory were inventions of his own, created for greater precision or better handling.
Artley never played the flute, and until the factory was begun, had never worked on them. His uncle played a little, and had worked on flutes before. This apparent lack of knowledge was not important however, the importance lying in an understanding of accuracy and precision that made a better instrument.
Artley recognized a market for cheaper flutes and although production was slow at first, business began to pick up as more people became interested in learning to play the instrument.
Mrs. Artley [Willodene] believes it was the availability of this inexpensive flute that made it so popular in the schools at the time.
The first Artley factory started with only six men and continued production for a few years until the war [World War II] shortages, especially a lack of silver, forced them to shut down operations. After the war a new factory was built in Elkhart. Much of the work done on the flutes then was by hand, but the Artleys still managed to keep the cost down.
Two kinds of flutes were made, sterling silver flutes, used mainly by professionals and a silver-plated one made of a cheaper metal tubing, usually nickel, and sent away to be plated with silver. It was this last group of flutes that was made especially for students, and were the mainstay of the business.
Hube sold his portion of the business to his uncle Don Artley.
Hube returned to Wenatchee in 1953 to buy an orchard and grow apples.
His brother W. R. Artley, is raising his family here ahd has a daughter, Sharon, who is playing an Artley flute. She took up the instrument in the fifth grade and is now continuing in high school and studying with Beth Ann Ward, local flute instructor. Source: Willodene Artley and was published in the Wenatchee World, 8/19/1973.
Hube also worked full time at VanDoren Sales, Wenatchee, as a machinist. Source: Wenatchee World, Hube's obituary.
He was a member of the E. Wenatchee Grange and the Lake Chelan Yacht Club. He attended Trinity Methodist Church, E. Wenatchee.
Cause of death=kidney and lung cancer.
Hube graduated 1926 from Bryan [Ohio] High School.
In 1927 he came to Wenatchee where he lived for seven years, then returned to Indiana where he established the Artley Manufacturing Co. makers of fine musical instruments. Soure: Willodene Gonderman Artley, his wife.
He was also a machinist and orchardist.
Hube started the Artley flute manufacturing business which is still in business today (1994). Uncle Hube and his uncle [Donald D. Artley] who began the detailed manufacturing of four to five flutes a week in an old church building in Elkhart, Ind. in 1940. They had spent the previous year manufacturing fine tools to use in their factory. The tools were made at night in their basements. Hube was then employed in a clarinet factory and was a fine machinist. Many of the tools used in his flute factory were inventions of his own, created for greater precision or better handling.
Artley never played the flute, and until the factory was begun, had never worked on them. His uncle played a little, and had worked on flutes before. This apparent lack of knowledge was not important however, the importance lying in an understanding of accuracy and precision that made a better instrument.
Artley recognized a market for cheaper flutes and although production was slow at first, business began to pick up as more people became interested in learning to play the instrument.
Mrs. Artley [Willodene] believes it was the availability of this inexpensive flute that made it so popular in the schools at the time.
The first Artley factory started with only six men and continued production for a few years until the war [World War II] shortages, especially a lack of silver, forced them to shut down operations. After the war a new factory was built in Elkhart. Much of the work done on the flutes then was by hand, but the Artleys still managed to keep the cost down.
Two kinds of flutes were made, sterling silver flutes, used mainly by professionals and a silver-plated one made of a cheaper metal tubing, usually nickel, and sent away to be plated with silver. It was this last group of flutes that was made especially for students, and were the mainstay of the business.
Hube sold his portion of the business to his uncle Don Artley.
Hube returned to Wenatchee in 1953 to buy an orchard and grow apples.
His brother W. R. Artley, is raising his family here ahd has a daughter, Sharon, who is playing an Artley flute. She took up the instrument in the fifth grade and is now continuing in high school and studying with Beth Ann Ward, local flute instructor. Source: Willodene Artley and was published in the Wenatchee World, 8/19/1973.
Hube also worked full time at VanDoren Sales, Wenatchee, as a machinist. Source: Wenatchee World, Hube's obituary.
He was a member of the E. Wenatchee Grange and the Lake Chelan Yacht Club. He attended Trinity Methodist Church, E. Wenatchee.
Cause of death=kidney and lung cancer.
In 1927 he came to Wenatchee where he lived for seven years, then returned to Indiana where he established the Artley Manufacturing Co. makers of fine musical instruments. Soure: Willodene Gonderman Artley, his wife.
He was also a machinist and orchardist.
Hube started the Artley flute manufacturing business which is still in business today (1994). Uncle Hube and his uncle [Donald D. Artley] who began the detailed manufacturing of four to five flutes a week in an old church building in Elkhart, Ind. in 1940. They had spent the previous year manufacturing fine tools to use in their factory. The tools were made at night in their basements. Hube was then employed in a clarinet factory and was a fine machinist. Many of the tools used in his flute factory were inventions of his own, created for greater precision or better handling.
Artley never played the flute, and until the factory was begun, had never worked on them. His uncle played a little, and had worked on flutes before. This apparent lack of knowledge was not important however, the importance lying in an understanding of accuracy and precision that made a better instrument.
Artley recognized a market for cheaper flutes and although production was slow at first, business began to pick up as more people became interested in learning to play the instrument.
Mrs. Artley [Willodene] believes it was the availability of this inexpensive flute that made it so popular in the schools at the time.
The first Artley factory started with only six men and continued production for a few years until the war [World War II] shortages, especially a lack of silver, forced them to shut down operations. After the war a new factory was built in Elkhart. Much of the work done on the flutes then was by hand, but the Artleys still managed to keep the cost down.
Two kinds of flutes were made, sterling silver flutes, used mainly by professionals and a silver-plated one made of a cheaper metal tubing, usually nickel, and sent away to be plated with silver. It was this last group of flutes that was made especially for students, and were the mainstay of the business.
Hube sold his portion of the business to his uncle Don Artley.
Hube returned to Wenatchee in 1953 to buy an orchard and grow apples.
His brother W. R. Artley, is raising his family here ahd has a daughter, Sharon, who is playing an Artley flute. She took up the instrument in the fifth grade and is now continuing in high school and studying with Beth Ann Ward, local flute instructor. Source: Willodene Artley and was published in the Wenatchee World, 8/19/1973.
Hube also worked full time at VanDoren Sales, Wenatchee, as a machinist. Source: Wenatchee World, Hube's obituary.
He was a member of the E. Wenatchee Grange and the Lake Chelan Yacht Club. He attended Trinity Methodist Church, E. Wenatchee.
Cause of death=kidney and lung cancer.
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