Singing Lessons For My Fountain Pen Nib?

[sotto2]

(Dear Lord, forgive me for this post.)

My fountain pen nib sings, but only one song: "I Want to Hold Your Hand".

This is getting tiresome. How can I get it to sing something else?

Moderators: Please feel free to move this to the Repairs section if it's in the wrong place.

Edited April 5, 2014 by sotto2

[KBeezie]

Would I be shot if I asked for clarification of what you mean?

(when you said singing thought you were talking bout the nib making a pitch when writing, like I once saw in a review)

[sotto2]

Maybe I should look over on Richard Binder's or John Mottishaw's websites.

Edited April 5, 2014 by sotto2

[sotto2]

I wonder if songs for singing nibs are written with Music nibs?

[wlwilcox]

I have heard that a nib that sings " Make a noise" is a good thing.

[jar]

See "singing" here.

[KBeezie]

See "singing" here.

 

It's a shame I'll never know if I have a singing nib.

[sotto2]

It's better than hearing "Ballad of the Green Berets" over and over from your Schrade Tactical pen nib.

[Paddler]

A singing nib tends to make people move away from you at a bank desk. This could be a good thing. The songs also tend to make librarians a bit testy. This could be bad. I have clamped a damper on the hi fi by changing inks and doing the singing myself.

[framebaer]

Take the nib out, put a severe kink in it just behind the breather hole, re-insert, no more singing!

[Ursus]

Singing nibs are just great!

[hypnostene]

My pens sometimes sing 4'33" when they are left alone. I can't stand it, as I consider that direction in 20th century music to be something of a sham.

Edited April 5, 2014 by hypnostene

[sotto2]

Well, that 9'22" of 4'33" was deeply moving, and I'm sorry I ever hesitated about starting this thread.

[mcc1701]

Anybody have a fountain pen from the late 1910s-early 1920s that is completely into Dadaism? I don't like Wagner, either, but I'm not sure what to make of Les Six either.

[sotto2]

Take the nib out, put a severe kink in it just behind the breather hole, re-insert, no more singing!

 

Well, something from the severe Kinks wouldn't be so bad. I like "You Really Got Me".

[Mickey]

Count yourself lucky. You might have ended up with a rapping nib.

[fledermaus89]

My pens sometimes sing 4'33" when they are left alone. I can't stand it, as I consider that direction in 20th century music to be something of a sham.

 

[KBeezie]

Count yourself lucky. You might have ended up with a rapping nib.

 

Or one that does this every time you un-cap the pen.

 

[TimGirdler]

I have heard that a nib that sings " Make a noise" is a good thing.

 

Nope.

 

 

 

Take the nib out, put a severe kink in it just behind the breather hole, re-insert, no more singing!

 

Yep.

 

 

My pens sometimes sing 4'33" when they are left alone. I can't stand it, as I consider that direction in 20th century music to be something of a sham.

 

And... a John Cage fan? Wow! Quite an eclectic group these fountain pen people.

 

Blessings,

 

Tim