[Leica] My Cello

[Jayanand Govindaraj]

Atmospheric shot.
Cheers
Jayanand

On Mon, Sep 25, 2017 at 5:43 AM, Bernard Quinn <bjq1 at mac.com> 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
>
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