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- From: melynda@titipu.resun.com (Melynda Reid)
- Newsgroups: alt.artcom
- Subject: not all netlings are young folks from edu sites
- Date: Wed, 30 Dec 92 21:13:53 EST(-0500)
- Organization: Paleolithic Refugia
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- Reply-To: melynda@titipu.resun.com (Melynda Reid)
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- i saw a plaintive cry for an article on art on alt.art.com. i am a
- middle-aged artist on a com. site, my husband's old hand-me down
- macplus. i have not posted much on the net lately because i am not
- comfortable typing on a keyboard.
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- i have been trying to track down a source for a pen which would write
- five evenly spaced lines at once. i use a gravity feed fountain pen for
- writing poetry and prose and notes on scientific texts. i am wanting to
- draw staves for composing music interlocked with drawings. i want the
- staves to be curved not always straight.
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- i have been experimenting with composing music by drawing lines found in
- nature atop staves. one morning i drew in a folding book the track of a
- serpent crossing the dirt road. i then added three haiku to the staves.
- i added drawings of leaves and birds which left their imprints in the
- sand to the staves. i looked at what i had done and wanted the staves
- themselves to arc and dive in a serpentine line.
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- i have called music stores and suppliers in all sorts of places. years
- ago people drew their own manuscript paper. as a child i remember
- seeing pens to draw staves. i have tried taping five pens together to
- draw curved lines. the results are horrible.
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- does anyone know where i might obtain such a pen ? or how i might make
- a pen nib or device that will work ? i am really obsessed with drawing
- music right now.
- melynda claire reid
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- melynda reid who wears hats but does not type caps
- eel: melynda@titipu.resun.com or nosc.mil!titipu.resun.com!melynda
- snail: p o box 378 greensboro, florida 32330
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