[Leica] My Cello

[Alan Magayne-Roshak]

On Sun, 24 Sep 2017 Peter Klein <boulanger.croissant at gmail.com>wrote:

>...
>We are indeed the custodians of our instruments. Ideally, we develop
>some sort of symbiosis with them. I suspect that wood fibers align
>according to the resonances we draw out of the instrument. So each
>player contributes in some way to how the instrument sounds.

>Keep playing.? It's part of the good fight to keep beauty in the world
>and keep barbarism at bay.? I know that sounds a bit precious, but I
>truly believe it.

>--Peter
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These posts have kind of shamed me into spending more time with the
instruments in my care.
I have two violins made by my grandfather.  He made one string instrument
for each of his ten children. My father played the first, made in 1921; the
other is the one I played in high school (the last made - 1959).   I can't
really play anymore, but I need to take them out and exercise them to keep
them alive.

Gramps building one:
<http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Alan+Magayne-Roshak/Gear/G
ramps_MSR.jpg.html>

Purportedly, there are 20 coats of varnish on mine:
<http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Alan+Magayne-Roshak/Gear/V
iolin00_AMR.jpg.html>
<http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Alan+Magayne-Roshak/Gear/V
iolin02_AMR.jpg.html>

-- 
Alan

Alan Magayne-Roshak, Senior Photographer
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Photo Services
(Retired)
UPAA Photographer of the Year 1978
UPAA Master of the Profession 2014
amr3 at uwm.edu
http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Alan+Magayne-Roshak/

"All the technique in the world doesn't compensate
 for an inability to notice. " - Elliott Erwitt