[Leica] My Cello

[Bernard Quinn]

Thank You! I am lucky not to mention blessed to be able to play such as instrument.

Barney

Barney Quinn, WK3Z
C: (301) 775-1386
H: (301) 654-0938

> On Oct 2, 2017, at 9:23 PM, Aram <leica_r8 at hotmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 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 
> <http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Barney/John+Lemoine.jpg.html>
> 
> Comments and Criticisms Welcome!
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Barney 
> 
> 
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