[Leica] My Cello

[Bernard Quinn]

Thanks!

Barney Quinn, WK3Z
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> On Sep 25, 2017, at 12:23 AM, Sonny Carter <sonc.hegr at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 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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