Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2017/09/25
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]E-MAIL ADDRESS? PHONE # FOR STEVE BARBOUR????????????? Hi CREW! Or Steve for some reason? I haven't been able to make any connection with Steve Barbour? For several days. Please would someone send me his e-mail address and phone number? OR Steve please connect??? Thankyou. cheers, Dr.Ted Grant O.C. -----Original Message----- From: LUG [mailto:lug-bounces+tedgrant=shaw.ca at leica-users.org] On Behalf Of Jim Nichols Sent: September-25-17 9:00 PM To: Leica Users Group Subject: Re: [Leica] My Cello Thanks for the enlightenment. Jim Nichols Tullahoma, TN USA On 9/25/2017 10:24 PM, Bernard Quinn wrote: > 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 > _______________________________________________ > 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 --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus