Lionel Leleux:

0:00 - Playing with Don Montoucet after Lawrence Walker died in 1973
-Lionel (fiddle), Jr. Benoit (guitar), Don Montoucet (accordion), Simon Schexnyder (drums)
-Don was a bus driver and mechanic and his father, Jacques, played as well
-Lionel had the most fun since playing with Lawrence. Don had to quit because of his health
-learning to play violin by ear; What is a musician?

4:56 - Playing for Codofil, 1st time Codofil sponsored Cajun music
-National folk festival in Virginia, touring in Central and South America; Some people think that musicians are no good
-role of the musician on the bandstand
-making violins from 1927-1932 without tools (breaking bottles for scrapers, cutting bones for finger board and saddle board nuts)
-eventually bought tools and wood; no one to show him how to do it. He had to learn on his own

11:16 - First violin sold; Second violin was made for Doug Kershaw
-Wallace Touchet's violin; finding geometrical formulas to build violins using trigonometry
-formulating varnish with a formula used by chemical engineer Josef Michaelman from Cincinnati Ohio--1600/1700s Italian violin curves

15:50 - Early schooling. Lionel almost didn't go to school; Violin making book--des grands mots
-what Lionel missed by quitting school; first violin; Lionel thinks his violins are well worth it
-The people who purchase them like them too

20:20 - Playing Strad. and Guarnieri violins for dances. Lionel got them in 1949
-First time Lionel saw good violins owned by an eye doctor from Abbeville who had no family down here. They were all up north
-When he died, they had an estate sale and Lionel's friend bought it, and Lionel bought it from his friend--Stradivarius and Guarnarius violins

25:04 - Borrowing money to buy violins. Lionel had 4 violins and people wanted to buy them
-He didn't have enough money to buy the Strad and Guanarius. He liked them and sold his 4 others after getting his hands on them
-compares his he makes to those 2 nice violins; Lawrence liked the Strad. more; "La 'tite noire/la 'tite négresse"
-difference between Stradivarius and Guarnarius violin --Strad. smooth and sweet/ Guarnarius robust. Lionel likes them both