[Leica] My Cello

[Bernard Quinn]

You are lucky to have them. What a connection with your roots.

Barney 

Barney Quinn, WK3Z
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> On Sep 26, 2017, at 12:42 AM, Alan Magayne-Roshak <amr3 at uwmalumni.com> wrote:
> 
> 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
> ============================================================
> =================================
> 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
> 
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