[Leica] My Cello

[Bernard Quinn]

Jim, 

Thanks! Your Uncle's violin can probably be restored if that is something you want to do. 

The violin shaped object in the picture is actually a cradle. Violins  have curved backs and the varnish which coats them is fragile. When you work on a violin you place it in the cradle so that it is sable and doesn't get damaged.

Barney

Barney Quinn, WK3Z
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> On Sep 24, 2017, at 8:54 PM, Jim Nichols <jhnichols at lighttube.net> wrote:
> 
> Nicely composed, and a beautiful instrument.
> 
> What I presume to be a violin shell on the table intrigued me.  I have a 150 yr-old "fiddle" around here somewhere that belonged to an uncle who died before I was born.  It has been badly treated, and I've never heard it played because parts are missing.  But I never realized that a violin shell was that thick.  Gives me a new sense of what I've been looking at.
> 
> Good luck in getting the "touch" back.
> 
> Jim Nichols
> Tullahoma, TN USA
> 
>> On 9/24/2017 7:13 PM, Bernard Quinn 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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