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Subject: [Leica] My Cello
From: photo at frozenlight.eu (Nathan Wajsman)
Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2017 07:07:03 +0200
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I don?t know how I missed Barney?s original post, but that is a beautiful 
picture?and story.

Cheers,
Nathan

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> 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
>> 
>> 
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