[Leica] My Cello

[Aram]

What a lovely looking instrument, Barney.  And you have the right attitude 
about owning such a treasure.  I hope it gives you joy to play it.  And the 
photograph of our friend is wonderful, too.

Aram

-----Original Message----- 
From: Bernard Quinn
Sent: Sunday, September 24, 2017 5:13 PM
To: Leica Users Group
Subject: [Leica] My Cello

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 
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Comments and Criticisms Welcome!

Thanks,

Barney