Small flat-style acoustic guitar tattoo in orange and brown on the upper arm of a person wearing a white t-shirt.

Acoustic guitar on upper arm

Upper arm · Colour · Photo

A small acoustic guitar is tattooed on the outer upper arm, shown with its body, sound hole, neck and headstock. The guitar is drawn with simple flat shapes and clean outlines, with no shading. The body is filled with orange and a darker reddish-brown, and the neck is dark, against a plain skin tone and a pale background.

Upper arm Guitar

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A story inspired by this tattoo · fiction

The orchard above Faversham had gone quiet by the second week of September, the pickers back in the towns and only wasps left working the windfalls. Nell Garrod found the guitar wedged between two crates in the packing shed, its body as fat and orange as a ripe pear, the varnish worn soft where someone's elbow had rested for years. The neck was dark with handling. When she brushed past, a single string still hummed.

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Her uncle Ray said it belonged to a lad called Tomasz who had slept in the barn one summer and played in the evenings, badly and beautifully, while the Gala apples came down. He had left in a hurry the week of the storms, owing two weeks' wages and a crate of Conference pears. Nell carried the instrument up the ladder to the top field, where the Bramleys hung heavy and the light lay amber across the grass. She tuned it by ear, the way she'd heard him do, and the first chord came out flat and sweet.

She played until the sun touched the hedge, one song she half remembered and then invented the rest of. A van horn sounded on the lane below, and she did not look up. Ray came to the gate with his cap in his hands and said the lad had sent a postcard from Lisbon asking whether his guitar was still there. Nell lifted the instrument from her knee and held it out across the gate. "Tell him it's been kept in tune," she said, and walked back down through the trees with the windfalls splitting under her boots.