Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2017/09/25
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]On Sun, 24 Sep 2017 Peter Klein <boulanger.croissant at gmail.com>wrote: >... >We are indeed the custodians of our instruments. Ideally, we develop >some sort of symbiosis with them. I suspect that wood fibers align >according to the resonances we draw out of the instrument. So each >player contributes in some way to how the instrument sounds. >Keep playing.? It's part of the good fight to keep beauty in the world >and keep barbarism at bay.? I know that sounds a bit precious, but I >truly believe it. >--Peter ============================================================ ================================= These posts have kind of shamed me into spending more time with the instruments in my care. I have two violins made by my grandfather. He made one string instrument for each of his ten children. My father played the first, made in 1921; the other is the one I played in high school (the last made - 1959). I can't really play anymore, but I need to take them out and exercise them to keep them alive. Gramps building one: <http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Alan+Magayne-Roshak/Gear/G ramps_MSR.jpg.html> Purportedly, there are 20 coats of varnish on mine: <http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Alan+Magayne-Roshak/Gear/V iolin00_AMR.jpg.html> <http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Alan+Magayne-Roshak/Gear/V iolin02_AMR.jpg.html> -- Alan Alan Magayne-Roshak, Senior Photographer University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Photo Services (Retired) UPAA Photographer of the Year 1978 UPAA Master of the Profession 2014 amr3 at uwm.edu http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Alan+Magayne-Roshak/ "All the technique in the world doesn't compensate for an inability to notice. " - Elliott Erwitt