Noodler's Tchaikovsky

[Mercian]

On 3/13/2023 at 4:19 PM, yazeh said:

I’m not sure why Mr. Tardiff used this muted purple to represent Tchaikovsky.

If I remember correctly (n.b. this is a very big ‘IF’) from an old episode of ‘Composer of the Week’ on BBC Radio 3, Tchaikovsky was known for wearing lilac gloves while he lived in Paris.
There was speculation that this was understood as a signal of his sexuality in the Paris demi-monde.
If I am right about that, it may explain the colour choice.

 

Full disclosure: it is very possible that the story about the gloves that I remember was told about Marcel Proust, and not about Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky.

[yazeh]

57 minutes ago, Mercian said:

If I remember correctly (n.b. this is a very big ‘IF’) from an old episode of ‘Composer of the Week’ on BBC Radio 3, Tchaikovsky was known for wearing lilac gloves while he lived in Paris.
There was speculation that this was understood as a signal of his sexuality in the Paris demi-monde.
If I am right about that, it may explain the colour choice.

 

Full disclosure: it is very possible that the story about the gloves that I remember was told about Marcel Proust, and not about Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky.

Thank you for sharing that, whether it's a big or small IF. that's seems quite plausible.  🙏Though, I would be curious to see why he chose such a bright blazing pink for Rachmaninov?

[Mercian]

1 hour ago, yazeh said:

Though, I would be curious to see why he chose such a bright blazing pink for Rachmaninov?

Well, you’ve certainly got me there! 😁

 

Perhaps it’s as simple as Mr. Tardiff having had ‘x’ new inks to name, and so just assigning ‘x’ composers’ names to them?

I mean, I don’t even think of bright pink as being a particularly ‘Russian’ colour. There are the shades of blue and red from their flag, the greens of St. Petersburg’s palaces, maybe a ‘bear-fur’ brown and an ‘amber’ for Catherine the Great’s Amber Room?

 

Readers will see immediately that I am very much not any kind of expert on things Russian! 😁

[yazeh]

2 hours ago, Mercian said:

Well, you’ve certainly got me there! 😁

 

Perhaps it’s as simple as Mr. Tardiff having had ‘x’ new inks to name, and so just assigning ‘x’ composers’ names to them?

Or writers  I still have Lermontov, Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky to figure out!

2 hours ago, Mercian said:

I mean, I don’t even think of bright pink as being a particularly ‘Russian’ colour. There are the shades of blue and red from their flag, the greens of St. Petersburg’s palaces, maybe a ‘bear-fur’ brown and an ‘amber’ for Catherine the Great’s Amber Room?

It must pertain to something about Rachmaninov and his music. 

2 hours ago, Mercian said:

 

Readers will see immediately that I am very much not any kind of expert on things Russian! 😁

Don't worry, you're not the only one

[namrehsnoom]

Thanks very much for this review, @yazeh - I love the colour of this one. It’s simply beautiful ! And the fact that it is bulletproof makes it an excellent ink for note taking at work. For 2023 - I started using an X17 notebook as a daily processor, and their inserts are quite fountain pen friendly. Also - it’s coated paper, so based on your experience the ink will do fine here. I’m definitely going to give this ink a try (and hopefully my bottle will have that same lovely muted purple-grey colour).

[yazeh]

1 hour ago, namrehsnoom said:

Thanks very much for this review, @yazeh -

🙏

1 hour ago, namrehsnoom said:

 

I love the colour of this one. It’s simply beautiful ! And the fact that it is bulletproof makes it an excellent ink for note taking at work.

I have to admit, it's truly soft and gentle. 

1 hour ago, namrehsnoom said:

 

For 2023 - I started using an X17 notebook as a daily processor, and their inserts are quite fountain pen friendly. Also - it’s coated paper, so based on your experience the ink will do fine here. I’m definitely going to give this ink a try (and hopefully my bottle will have that same lovely muted purple-grey colour).

I hope so too