Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2017/09/26
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Nathan, Thanks! I am very lucky to have this cello to play! Barney Barney Quinn, WK3Z C: (301) 775-1386 H: (301) 654-0938 > On Sep 26, 2017, at 1:07 AM, Nathan Wajsman <photo at frozenlight.eu> > wrote: > > 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 > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information