Johannes Geworkian Hellman and Bernard Kerboeuf, La Châtre

The story continues...

Johannes ate (as we could see in yesterdays blog) his breakfast with us and after this we went on a stroll around the city.
As he had seen that the well known 'vielle'-designer Bernard Kerboeuf lived in La Châtre ("Does HE live hear!!!") we toke him to his house and knocked on the door.
Monsieur Kerboueuf opened the door and asked us in.
This was a great moment for Johannes and in the photos below we see him together with monsieur Kerboeuf, looking at and trying a 'hurdy gurdy', playing some tunes on it.
The conversation between the two was held in French and 'Fredish'.

Kerboeuf:
"Here you can see some of the instruments
I've created and repaired"
Johannes:
"Wow...!"

Kerboeuf:
"Do you want to try one of them?"

Johannes:
"Wow (for at least the second time), can I really do that?!"
Kerboeuf:
"Of course, I'll help you...!"

Kerboeuf:
"That's it and now you see the buttons here...
You use them like this..."
Johannes:
"Ok, a little bit different from the ones I'm used to"

Kerboeuf:

"And now You try to play!"
Johannes:
"I have to adjust this button and this..."
Kerboeuf:
"That's it!"

Unfortunately everything has an end and we had to say goodbye to monsieur Kerboeuf, walking back to my mother-in-law, putting the bags of Johannes in to the car and head towards Châteauroux.

This is on the station just before the train arrives.

Now we know that Johannes - after having finished his concerts and recordings with his group Garizim - will return this summer for Rencontres Internationales des Luthiers et Maîtres Sonneurs... (to be continued).