Black and grey fine line tattoo of a double bass on the finger of a hand gripping the instrument's strings.

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Double bass tattoo on a finger

Fine line · Hand · Black and grey · Photo

A hand grips the strings of a double bass, and a small tattoo of the instrument's body and scroll sits on one finger. The tattoo uses fine, sketchy linework with light hatched shading. The photograph is black and white, with a soft grey background and the strings running diagonally behind the hand.

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The bass would not go through the bus door sideways, and it would not go through upright, so Dev stood on the kerb in Catford with the instrument tipped against his hip like a drunk friend and asked the driver whether he had ever been asked to carry a cello with a grudge. The driver said he had been asked worse by a tuba. Dev laughed, and the laugh got him a seat at the front, where the bass could lean across two folded pushchairs and a bag of onions.

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It had been his uncle's, a Czech-made thing with a crack in the belly patched with brown glue and a scroll worn smooth by thumbs. Uncle Ivo had played it in a hotel bar in Margate for thirty years and never once tuned it before a gig, claiming the bar's piano had enough nerve for both of them. Dev had inherited the bass, two dog-eared songbooks and a debt to a man called Pritchard who still expected a Christmas card.

The hall in Hither Green was hosting a ceilidh for a couple who had met on a night bus. The fiddler had a cold, and the caller had lost his voice to a bad curry, so Dev was handed the bass and a stool and told to keep the floor moving. He dug in, the strings sang low and rough, and forty pairs of feet found the beat.

Afterwards, carrying the bass back to the stop under a sky the colour of wet slate, he noticed a smear of rosin on the fingerboard in the shape of a thumbprint that was not his own. He left it there. Some things a bass was built to hold.

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