Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2017/09/25
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Thanks! Barney Quinn, WK3Z C: (301) 775-1386 H: (301) 654-0938 > On Sep 25, 2017, at 12:23 AM, Sonny Carter <sonc.hegr at gmail.com> wrote: > > Pretty as a flower > > > >>> On Mon, Sep 25, 2017 at 5:43 AM, Bernard Quinn <bjq1 at mac.com> 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 > > -- > Regards, > > Sonny > http://sonc.com/look/ > Natchitoches, Louisiana > 1714 > Oldest Permanent Settlement in the Louisiana Purchase > > USA > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information