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Location is the back yard of our (then) home
at 118 Wyndmoor Road, Springfield,
Delaware County, Pennsylvania -- JSA.

Photo by Gordon W. Allen

Cello duet during service at Unitarian Fellowship of Delaware County, Pennsylvania.
My father had played trombone professionally in the 1930's in a
touring jazz orchestra, but could not improvise and decided he
did not like the trombone in any case. He quit his musical
career to study social work.
His cello was a plywood Kay which he had purchased
through the PX while in the Army during World War II.
Mine was a 3/4 size rental instrument from the Springfield public schools.
I had then been playing cello for 2 months. The spiritual uplift
of this playing had to be imagined (rather than absorbed). This can
be proven, as a home recording survives of one of our duet
performances, accompanied by the crying of younger brother Jim -- JSA.

Photo by Pennington