Two clasped hands showing matching fine line black tattoos of music staves and notes wrapping around the fingers.

Enlarged with AI from a smaller original

Matching musical stave tattoos on fingers

Fine line · Hand · Black and grey · Photo

Two hands are clasped together, each with a matching tattoo of a musical stave with notes wrapping around a finger. The linework is thin and dark, with solid note heads and small curved tails, and the tattoos are set against pale skin. The image is in colour but the ink is black, and the close framing keeps the fingers and tattoos at the centre.

Find an artist for this

Take it to an artist as a reference. A good artist will make it yours rather than copy someone else's tattoo.

A story inspired by this tattoo · fiction

The colliery band rehearsed on Thursdays in the old pithead baths, where the damp came up through the floorboards and the euphonium never quite sat in tune. Nell Pritchard had stopped noticing the cold years ago. What she noticed was Dai Morgan tapping the score with his pencil, as if the crotchets might wander off the page if he looked away from them.

Keep reading

The stave had been inked on their fingers the spring after the pit closed, a fortnight before the Whit parade. Dai wanted something that would outlast a brass band contest. Nell said a ring would only snag in the valves, so they climbed the stairs above Mrs Hughes's chip shop to see a man with a tray of needles and a bottle of ink he kept under the sink. He wound five lines around each of their middle fingers and let the quavers tumble down towards the knuckle, and it stung less than Dai pretended it did.

Since then they had argued over every bar of the test piece, the same way they argued over the kettle and the last of the coal money. On the night before the Glynfach contest, Nell found the score left open on the kitchen table, Dai's pencil crowding the margins. At the foot of the final page he had written a line of rests with no notes at all, and beside it, in square capitals: FOR THE SILENCE AFTER.

At the contest they played the piece through under the low hall lights. When the last phrase came, Nell lifted her cornet, held the stillness for the full count, and felt the whole village breathe out through the tiled walls.

More like this

Two hands with matching thin black wave tattoos around fingers, shown in a fine line style on the hand.
Matching wave bands on two fingers
Two hands held together showing matching fine line black knot band tattoos wrapped around the base of two fingers.
Matching knot band tattoos on two fingers
Fine line black ink tattoos on three fingers of a hand: an eye with lashes, a crescent moon and a cat's head.
Eye, moon and cat finger tattoos
Two small black script letter tattoos on the fingers of clasped hands, in a fine line lettering style.
Script letters on two fingers
Two small yellow star tattoos with black outlines and dark tails, one on a finger of each hand, resting on a wooden table.
Two small star tattoos on fingers
Two clasped hands show matching black ink tattoos around the fingers, each with a heart and star motif.
Matching finger ring tattoos on clasped hands
Two hands with small fine line black tattoos: a treble clef on one finger and a bass clef on the adjacent finger, both on the hand.
Treble and bass clef finger tattoos
Close view of two clasped hands with the word ALWAYS tattooed in black capitals along one finger on each hand, in a lettering style.
ALWAYS lettering on two fingers
Small black fine line cross tattoo on the side of a finger, with long pale nails visible on a hand.
Small black cross on a finger
Black ink script letter B with the date 07.19.11 tattooed across two adjacent fingers of a hand, a lettering tattoo on the hand.
Matching script B and date tattoos on fingers
Two hands with matching thin black script tattoos on the fingers, reading mr and mrs, in a fine line lettering style.
Matching mr and mrs finger tattoos
Close-up of two hands with small fine line tattoos in black ink, a strawberry on one middle finger and a potted cactus on another finger.
Small strawberry and cactus finger tattoos

From the plentytattoo archive, uploaded by a user. Is this your work? Ask for credit or removal.