Fine line tattoo on the upper thigh of a fine line bow with musical staff lines, notes and a treble clef wrapped around the leg like a garter.

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Bow and music staff tattoo on a thigh

Fine line · Thigh · Black and grey · Photo

A thin black outline of a bow sits at the left of the thigh, with its loops and trailing ribbons drawn in fine line. Five-line musical staves run around the leg from the bow to the right, with black note heads, stems and a treble clef at the far end. The ink is dark grey to black on pale skin, and the close crop keeps the tattoo as the main subject against a plain background.

Fine line Thigh Bow Music note Musical staff Treble clef Garter Ribbon

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A story inspired by this tattoo · fiction

The fairground organ had stopped halfway through the chorus on the second night at Hexham, and by the time Nell Probert wriggled under the tin sheeting of the Gallopers, the crowd had drifted off towards the candyfloss stall. Her late father's pipe key was still in her apron pocket. She had four hours before the ride had to turn again, and a fair that couldn't play its tunes was a fair that got asked to leave the field.

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The trouble wasn't the pipes. It was the paper roll, punched years ago by someone who had been careless with the last bar, so the final phrase came out as a hiss. Nell unspooled it across the caravan floor, weighting the corners with spanners, and found where the holes had drifted. Gummed tape would lift in the damp. She needed something to hold the paper true while it ran over the spindle.

Her brother Dan came in smelling of diesel and tossed her a length of navy ribbon from the raffle stall. "Thought you might want a bow," he said. She laughed, then saw it. She threaded the ribbon through the cardboard core and tied it off in a neat double loop, the tails hanging down over the brass so the paper couldn't wander.

At dusk she cranked the handle. The bellows sighed, the pins struck, and the chorus came out whole, the last bar landing clean as the sky turned the colour of plums. The Gallopers began to turn, riders on the painted horses lifting their hands, and Nell watched the ribbon lift and settle with every revolution, keeping time with the tune she had mended. Dan leaned out from the generator and shouted that it sounded like a proper fair again. Nell wiped her hands on her apron and didn't correct him.