[Leica] My Cello

[jhnichols at lighttube.net (Jim Nichols)]

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
>
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