Black fine line tattoo on the side of the ribs of a heart formed from treble clef lines, with piano keys across the lower half and two dots beside it.

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Musical heart with piano keys on the ribs

Fine line · Ribs · Black and grey · Photo

A heart outline is formed from treble and bass clef swirls, with a row of piano keys filling the lower section and two dots to the right. The linework is thin and even, with solid black fill on the clef dots and keys. The ink is black on pale skin, and the design is centred in a close side view of the torso.

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The upright in St Aldhelm's had been dumb since the winter the river came into the nave, and Mrs Pennock wanted it singing for her daughter's wedding on the Saturday. Ruth Ashdown took the front panel off with a butter knife and a torch in her teeth, and found the hammers swollen and a sheet of manuscript paper folded flat against the soundboard.

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The paper had been written in pencil, long ago, by somebody who did not believe in neat handwriting. Two clefs, a treble and a bass, were drawn so their curls met and made a heart, and a row of keys was pressed in beneath them like teeth. Beside it, in the same hand, were two dots and the words 'for when you come back'. Ruth turned the sheet over. The back was a grocer's bill from 1961 for two pounds of barley sugar and a pint of milk, marked paid.

She worked three nights with a tuning fork and a rubber wedge. On the Saturday the bride, Nell Pennock, came in on her father's arm, and the groom, Tom Gedge, stood at the wrong end of the aisle until somebody told him where to go. Ruth played the first chord, then the second, and the old lower notes, which had been swollen all winter, came up warm and true.

Afterwards the groom's grandmother, ninety and sharp as a tack, asked who had drawn the pencil heart. Ruth said she did not know. The old woman laughed and said it was hers, sixty years back, given to a boy who went down the pit and never came up. She asked Ruth to put the paper back where it had been. Ruth did, and pressed the lid shut on the two dots.

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