Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2017/09/25
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Ted, There was a post by him on a page in Facebook, photos of the Pont du Gard, a day or two ago. I think he is in rural France somewhere... Cheers Jayanand On Tue, Sep 26, 2017 at 10:01 AM, Ted Grant <tedgrant at shaw.ca> wrote: > 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 > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information