Eventually the Mudcatters who know of this luthier will post to this obit thread.

This post takes a moment to reflect on his parents. The obit allows that both parents made music.

His parents were lucky to be alive at all. Look what is happening in the region that his mother came from -- today's Aleppo, Syria.

The Armenian genocide, from which his father escaped, resulted in an Armenian diaspora. New England has had Armenian neighborhoods ever since. The Mouradians' locations, in the Boston area, are given as Winchester and Arlington in the obituary. Watertown Massachusetts, however, is the grandfather of all of the Armenian-American enclaves in the Greater Boston Metro area.

No wonder Jim Mouradian was grateful for life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.