Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2017/09/25
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Lovely looking cello, Barney. Hope you get back to it soon. Douglas On 25/09/2017 01:13, Bernard Quinn wrote: > This is a picture of my friend John Lemoine. He is an extremely talented > violin maker who lives in Washington, DC. That is my cello he is working > on. It is over three hundred years old. It was made in the Austrian Alps > and it has a wonderful deep, dark, mellow tone. > > When you acquire an instrument like this it is made clear to you in a > hundred different ways that you are not its owner, you are its custodian. > Your job, along with playing it, is to make sure that it is preserved and > maintained so that it can be handed off to the next generation to play and > care for. > > I am the care giver for a special needs cello. Many years ago John found > an antique cello case in the garbage in New York. He fished it out, opened > it, and found the abused and broken last mortal remains of my cello. He > knew exactly what he was looking at. He took the pieces home and spent the > next two or three years restoring it. My wife?s health problems and my > back issues have kept me from playing recently. But now that I am retired > and doing better I am going to give going back to it a try. > > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Barney/John+Lemoine.jpg.html > <http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Barney/John+Lemoine.jpg.html> > > Comments and Criticisms Welcome! > > Thanks, > > Barney > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information