Pentel Tradio; Hand turned Furnace Hill Cedar; Schmidt; Noodlers Ink, TWSBI Eco T; Lamy Safari; Diplomat Traveller
Perhaps it takes a fountain pen. At least a good gel pen or even a high quality pencil. The first for me is the weapon of choice though I admit a definite practicality of a keyboard. Hence my adoption of this blog as an exercise in creative writing. When updated via my iPad it gets worse with the onscreen keyboard I am reduced to a slow tapping of the keys with a finger or at most two.
Fountain pens demand attention. Left too long without use dries them out and makes them temperamental. I have too many to make this work. Some are destined to too little use. Writing more this way won’t help them.
After taking Uke 2 to Massachusetts for the Thoreau Gathering I decided I needed something that could be knocked about more to travel, but I definitely wanted one to travel. There’s a Music & Arts store in Vernon, outside Hartford Connecticut where I found this little soprano Kohala cheap that sounded pretty good. It was difficult to keep from playing a new uke, so the next stop at a roadside rest provided some opportunity. Replaced later by a plastic uke for traveling, it now finds a permanent home at my training center for breaktime when I’m working there alone… not during classes.
My second ukulele was bought at