Black design of a treble and bass clef forming a heart, with the word love written in musical note shapes on a grey textured background.

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Treble and bass clef heart spelling love

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A black drawing of a treble clef and a bass clef that together form a heart shape, followed by the word love with its letters built from musical notes and a rest. The bold, solid linework is set against a pale grey, textured background with no skin or body part visible.

Music Heart Treble clef Bass clef Love Musical note

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A story inspired by this tattoo · fiction

Maud had been engraving brass band parts for eleven years at Pennick & Sons on Sowerby Street, and in all that time nobody had asked her to draw anything but notes. So when the bass clef came out of her pen a little too round, she left it. The heart appeared almost by accident, the treble curling round it like a ribbon, and she sat back on her stool and looked at it for a long time while the gas lamp hissed above the plate.

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The score was for the Hebden Bridge Silver Band's spring concert, a set of cornet parts going to press on Friday. Walter Ainsley came in every Thursday to collect the proofs, and every Thursday he left his tea untouched while he pretended not to look at her hands. She knew he would turn the sheet over to the last page, where the publisher's mark sat, and she knew he would see what she had written in the margin: love, spelled in crotchets and a single rest.

He did not say anything when he saw it. He folded the proof into his coat, nodded at the stool, and walked out into the wet afternoon. On Saturday the band played the piece in the Co-operative Hall, and Maud sat at the back with her gloves in her lap, listening for the moment the cornets dropped quiet on the last bar. When they did, she heard one clear note from the front row, a rest held a beat longer than it should have been, and she understood he had learned to read her handwriting after all.