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Subject: [Leica] My Cello
From: bjq1 at mac.com (Bernard Quinn)
Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2017 21:15:00 -0400
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 Thanks, Nathan!

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:
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> I don?t know how I missed Barney?s original post, but that is a beautiful 
> picture?and story.
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> Cheers,
> Nathan
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> Nathan Wajsman
> Alicante, Spain
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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
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>>> 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)
Message from bjq1 at mac.com (Bernard Quinn) ([Leica] My Cello)
Message from photo at frozenlight.eu (Nathan Wajsman) ([Leica] My Cello)