Friedrich was born in Breslau, a community that was then part of Germany and is now in Poland, the day after his parents attended a harpsichord recital by Wanda Landowska.
von Hoyningen genannt Huene, was from a Baltic German baronial family, and his mother, Aimée Freeland Corson Ellis, was from Connecticut.
Turning down an offer of a stipend to attend Harvard University, he began to work for flute maker Verne Q. Powell.
[3] Bernard Krainis, founder of New York Pro Musica, purchased one of von Huene's recorders, and he soon obtained enough orders for more instruments to open his own shop in Waltham, Massachusetts.
[5] In 1980 he and his wife opened a retail division, The Early Music Shop of New England, to sell other brands of instruments.