Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2017/09/27
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]You are lucky to have them. What a connection with your roots. Barney Barney Quinn, WK3Z C: (301) 775-1386 H: (301) 654-0938 > On Sep 26, 2017, at 12:42 AM, Alan Magayne-Roshak <amr3 at uwmalumni.com> > wrote: > > On Sun, 24 Sep 2017 Peter Klein <boulanger.croissant at gmail.com>wrote: > >> ... >> 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 > ============================================================ > ================================= > These posts have kind of shamed me into spending more time with the > instruments in my care. > I have two violins made by my grandfather. He made one string instrument > for each of his ten children. My father played the first, made in 1921; the > other is the one I played in high school (the last made - 1959). I can't > really play anymore, but I need to take them out and exercise them to keep > them alive. > > Gramps building one: > <http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Alan+Magayne-Roshak/Gear/G > ramps_MSR.jpg.html> > > Purportedly, there are 20 coats of varnish on mine: > <http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Alan+Magayne-Roshak/Gear/V > iolin00_AMR.jpg.html> > <http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Alan+Magayne-Roshak/Gear/V > iolin02_AMR.jpg.html> > > -- > Alan > > Alan Magayne-Roshak, Senior Photographer > University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Photo Services > (Retired) > UPAA Photographer of the Year 1978 > UPAA Master of the Profession 2014 > amr3 at uwm.edu > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Alan+Magayne-Roshak/ > > "All the technique in the world doesn't compensate > for an inability to notice. " - Elliott Erwitt > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information