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i much prefer the feel and sound of very smooth paper... when i use a notebook with rougher paper... I notice it... in my minds eye I see the nib picking up microscopic fibers of the paper... the sound reminds me with every stroke... I find myself constantly looking at the nib to make certain it is clean. I don't like a shave that isn't smooth and apparently I like my paper the same way. Rhodia and Clairefontaine seem to solve things. Now, regarding a "singing" nib? I have never heard or heard of that before this post... but it would make me crazy for sure!

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Loud writing pens = Sailor and Platinum. They like to finish (or unfinish) their nibs in a most peculiar way. Music to some people's ears but not to mine.

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I don't see the issue....

 

I mean how else are you to tell people "Hey, I'm writing here!"

 

Without, you know, actually saying anything?

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I have a few pens that I guess 'sing', in that they make a zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz sound when making a very long line across a page. I've never found this particularly bothersome or annoying.

 

My Pelikan 140, though, I noticed makes a pretty constant, faint clicking noise as I write. I think what is happening is that the nib has some flex and is pushed away from the feed when I begin a stroke and then snaps back against the feed when I lift the nib from the paper, thus making the click. I probably wouldn't notice it if I wrote cursive but my handwriting is more like a block-type with lots of little strokes so the noise is on-going.

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