Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2017/09/25
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I don?t know how I missed Barney?s original post, but that is a beautiful picture?and story. Cheers, Nathan Nathan Wajsman Alicante, Spain http://www.frozenlight.eu <http://www.frozenlight.eu/> http:// <http://www.greatpix.eu/>www.greatpix.eu PICTURE OF THE WEEK: http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws <http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws>Blog: http://nathansmusings.wordpress.com/ <http://nathansmusings.wordpress.com/> Cycling: http://www.crazyguyonabike.com/belgiangator <http://www.crazyguyonabike.com/belgiangator> YNWA > On 26 Sep 2017, at 05:43, Bernard Quinn <bjq1 at mac.com> wrote: > > > Wouldn't it be great if the wood fibers in our instruments could tell us > in words the story of what they have played, where they have been, and who > has played them rather than in sounds? > > Sometimes late on a winter night I will sit by the fireplace with my cello > and a glass of Scotch and try to coax its story out of it. It remains mute > except for the melodies it plays. > > I totally agree with you. If there is any hope for keeping barbarism at > bay it is music. > > Barney > > Barney Quinn, WK3Z > C: (301) 775-1386 > H: (301) 654-0938 > >> On Sep 25, 2017, at 2:38 AM, Peter Klein <boulanger.croissant at >> gmail.com> wrote: >> >> Barney: This is a beautiful picture, and a lovely tribute to both your >> instrument and your friend John. I also have a friend who is a string >> repairman, and I've seen several instruments he's brought back from >> near-death. His wife, who you may have seen in many of my musician >> pictures, plays a cello that we call "The English Patient" because it >> originated in 1700s England and needed a lot of TLC to be brought up to >> good playing condition. It turned out to be a gem with a lower register >> that has to be heard to be believed. >> >> 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 >> >>> 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