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Subject: [Leica] My Cello
From: bjq1 at mac.com (Bernard Quinn)
Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2017 12:12:43 -0400
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Luis, 

Thanks!

Barney

Barney Quinn, WK3Z
C: (301) 775-1386
H: (301) 654-0938

> On Sep 26, 2017, at 11:43 AM, Lluis Ripoll <lluisripollphotography at 
> gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Barney,
> 
> Your picture is very nice, I love the light but I like as well very much 
> you play Cello, it is my favorite instrument and the one that it is more 
> close to the human voice.
> 
> Cheers
> LLuis
> 
> 
>> El 26 set 2017, a les 16:58, Bernard Quinn <bjq1 at mac.com> va escriure:
>> 
>> 
>> 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
>>> 
>>> 
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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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In reply to: Message from boulanger.croissant at gmail.com (Peter Klein) ([Leica] My Cello)
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