MLT Club Member Jung Roe
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Here are a few handwriting samples from Paul McCartney and John Lennon.
It looks like one of music’s greatest pieces of music was handwritten by Paul with a simple red ink.
It appears both John and Paul hand wrote in cursive, though In John’s case a mixture of cursive and print. Makes sense, as they grew up in a time when kids were taught cursive in school, unlike these days. Cursive seems to be going the route of a lost handwriting form.
In that John Lennon post card to Ringo, even though John did not say a lot in the short message, it is so much more meaningful in his handwriting than compared to if it was a typed telex text.
That Paul McCartney letter inviting a drummer to an audition is pretty interesting. Can you imagine how excited that drummer musts have been to be invited to audition for the Beatles. Perhaps it was before the Beatles were famous as it mentions coming to Hamburg to audition, but still.
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This reply was modified 1 year, 9 months ago by Jung Roe.
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Hi Daryl!
Congrats on your new Seagull S6! That sounds great these are made right here in Canada. We have a few big music instrument stores here in Vancouver, Tom Lee being one of the big ones, and I love checking out the instruments, guitars, ukelele’s, pianos etc… There is something so beautiful, graceful and elegant about music instruments I love. I remember when I started my piano lessons on a Casio electronic keyboard, and then one day I saved up and finally pulled the trigger on a beautiful shiny black acoustic upright Baldwin piano. I loved everything about it, the beautiful keys, and often had the panels off just to admire all the wood work, the sound board, pedals, hammers etc… My piano playing certainly took off after I got that. I can certainly feel the passion you are feeling for your new guitar. I have an awesome MLT guitar strap that is in need of a guitar one day, maybe should go look at a Canadian Seagull! 😉
Here is some beautiful acoustic guitar playing on a Seagull.
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I’m not telling! 😜
They are both so amazing and wonderful, together their spark is greater than the sum of their parts like the Beatles, and individually Mona and Lisa are each so interesting, charasmatic, stunning, and amazing, an impossible question to answer.
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Dave, Roger, Jacki
Purple ink is cool indeed. I got a bottle of Montblanc “Beatles Psychedelic Purple” that came out as a special edition a few years ago that I use sparingly. It looks psychedelic. Now they came out with a Jimi Hendricks special edition purple ink. A few years ago I had a bottle of MB grey “Albert Einstein” ink that wrote like liquid lead that I used up. I kick myself I did not buy more when they were in production, as they are rare and hard to come by. Saw someone selling a bottle on ebay for a couple hundred dollars.
Dave, that vintage old bottle of Sheaffer Skrip purple could be a gem if it hasn’t been contaminated or gone moldy. I think antique inks are OK and safe to use, as long as you don’t see hardened sediments floating around in it. Perhaps use it in a less expensive pen, just in case. Is it safe to use old fountain pen inks?, the consensus is yes. Some of those old inks can give a nice antiquated look and feel to your script.
Christopher, I use to write cursive in school, but it was always dreadfully messy like a chicken scratch compared to my other classmates. By senior high school year, I dropped cursive for print only. It was slower, but my printing looked a lot neater than my cursive. About 10 years ago when I used fountain pens, I picked up cursive. It took me a while to be able to write cursive naturally again. I usually print in my work notebook, and write in cursive in my journals. For detailed notes and illustrations or technical drawings, it’s always printing, but for leisurely long writing sessions, cursive feels more satisfying.
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I remember as a young child seeing my parents bottle of Sheaffer Skrip blue and black ink. The ink bottle had two reservoirs in it, one compartment to collect ink so the nib get get a full fill. So I always have a bottle of Sheaffer Skrip laying around, just for nostalgia.
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Hi Sara
I struggle typing text into my phone. My young nieces can do amazing texting with two thumbs on the phone like they can speed type on a full size keyboard. It’s like they were born with smartphone thumbs. I was born with two left thumbs in comparison.
I shouldn’t get too far off topic, but thought I’d share my little world with this short fun video in case you are curious, why people like me are into handwriting with fountain pens with so much passion.
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Hi Daryl
It looks like you have some very nice signed mementos like that Don Henley autographed photo, and the caricature from the Edmonton Eskimos player. Yeah, those MLT scribbles are awesome. Love their autograph in red ink done with flair.
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Hi Dave!
That Chinese Calligraphy there looks awesome. Would love to see any MLT related calligraphy from her! My wife has also done some Korean Calligraphy with a writing brush like I see there in your picture. They can get some nice line variation and looks super elegant script with those brushes.
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Wow Michael, that is one impressive guitar with all those famous signatures. It will look even better with a Mona and Lisa signature on it indeed. 👍🙂
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Hi Jeanette
That is so special what you do with music to help people with disabilities and health challenges. Music is magic for the soul indeed. Thanks so much for sharing your experiences and all the beautiful examples of the healing power of music.
I came across this video that was pushed out to me on youtube. I think Mozart and Paul have nothing on this little girl and the sweet song she sings to her dog and cat. So moving.
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Hi Jeannette
That is a very interesting read. The part where it talks about meaning in music came before words is intriguing. “In other words, meaning in music came to us before meaning given by words.” I can certainly related to that, as in Beethoven’s symphonies so much is expressed through emotions without a word being spoken. I also like it’s description of music as a language of feeling. I find instrumental music be it a rock guitar piece or classical piano work, the order and symmetry and rhythm is so appealing and soothing. Our mind does gravitate towards a sense of order and harmony.
The therapeutic and healing aspect of music was something close to my heart. When my mom was in the care facility with dementia, I read about the potential healing aspect of music and had the staff there leave music on for my mom all the time when we weren’t there. I left a CD player with some CDs by my mom’s bedside. One CD I had her listen to a lot is this one. If Mozart got his inspiration from a profound place, I thought perhaps there might be some healing benefits to it. It’s beautiful anyways.
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Hi Jacki
I think you should write more with your fountain pen, just writing or drawing with purple ink sounds pretty groovy. Purple letters and notes can be your signature. Who around you do you know who use purple ink? I bet hardly no one, it would be pretty unique these days. My handwriting has always been messy, could never do the pretty writing some of the other kids in class could do.
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“But there’s research that suggests writing by hand improves thinking. Brain scans during the two activities—typing on a keyboard and handwriting—show that forming words by hand as opposed to on a keyboard leads to increased cognitive activity (pdf). Scientific studies of children and adults show that wielding a pen when taking notes, rather than typing, is associated with improved long-term information retention (pdf), better thought organization, and increased ability to generate ideas.”
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Hi Roger,
May your flock of pens multiply, and may you enjoy them in good health and happiness. 👍😜 If something happens and the global industry shuts down, I think I have enough ink to last me a couple of life times and then some. I think just like in music and art, if having numerous nice pens get you to write and express yourself more, it’s all good. And I really like how your handwritten script in journals, notes, and letters to someone is uniquely of you like no one else, it is your signature. There seems to be a quality to it perhaps different or better than typing. Anyway, some notable writers do their rough draft by hand first. Old school writing will boost your creativity.
Lots of renowned writers avoid computers when they are first working on a story, and sometimes they avoid them altogether. J.K. Rowling, Neil Gaiman, Joyce Carol Oates, Stephen King, and Danielle Steel are among the super-successful scribes who draft by hand.
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In this rare Beatles clip, it shows the creative musical state of mind Paul McCartney was in by the late 60s. It looks like the studio engineers, John, George and Ringo all sit and watch Paul tap into his amazing inspiration.
