Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2017/09/25
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Thanks! I am going to give it the old college try. Barney Barney Quinn, WK3Z C: (301) 775-1386 H: (301) 654-0938 > On Sep 25, 2017, at 4:41 PM, Douglas Barry <imra at iol.ie> wrote: > > 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 > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information