[Leica] My Cello

[Sonny Carter]

Pretty as a flower



> 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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Sonny
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1714
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