Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2017/09/25
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]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 C: (301) 775-1386 H: (301) 654-0938 > 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 >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information