[Leica] RETROSPECT 116

[Jayanand Govindaraj]

Wonderful photo illustrated by a great story!
Cheers
Jayanand

On Wed, Apr 22, 2020 at 8:02 AM Bill Clough via LUG <lug at leica-users.org>
wrote:

>    In 1980, on a cultural exchange assignment to Guatemala, I was paired
> one evening with the first-chair cellist of the Guatamala City, Mr. Manuel
> Alvarado. In high school, I held first chair cello in the orchestra, but I
> never learned how to read music. My mother was a trained concert pianist,
> so I had her play the music and then I played it mostly by ear. At the
> start of my senior year, I was hit with a sight-reading challenge and I
> went from first to fourth chair in 20 minutes. I looked at the class
> schedule and discovered the same time period for orchestra was a journalism
> class. The rest is history. I told Mr. Alvarado the story. After dinner, he
> asked me to play his cello. It had been 21 years since I had held a cello.
> It took me 15 minutes just to get the fingering for scales. “You have music
> in your soul,” he said. “Let me show you something.” He got a flashlight
> and illuminated the inside. I had been playing scales on a Stradivarius.
>
>
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>
> –Bill
>
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