Family of Charles CHASE and Dorothy Edna "Dotty" UDIN

A poet as well as an expert on folk instruments, Chase died of a

stroke May 21 at the Mountain View Alzheimer's Center in Claremont,

according to his daughter, Ellen Chase.

Chase allowed customers to play all the instruments in the center: the

antique Tibetan temple horns, American banjos, Polynesian conch shells

and African tongue drums as well as new guitars, banjos and drums.

Chase was a kindred spirit of folk singers such as Arlo Guthrie and

Pete Seeger, who mixed social causes with music. Chase looked a bit

like a folk singer himself with his full beard -- a soft, gray mist

that covered his collar in his later years.

Dorothy Chase, who with her husband, Charles Chase, founded the

influential Folk Music Center in Claremont, has died.

In the 1970s, they also established the Claremont Folk Festival.