Small black fine line treble clef tattoo on the outer ankle and lower leg, with a thumbs up gesture in the foreground.

Treble clef tattoo on an ankle

Fine line · Ankle · Black and grey · Photo

A small black treble clef sits on the lower leg just above the ankle bone, with a thin, curving line and a single dot to one side. The linework is solid and even, with no shading or colour, and the tattoo is set against plain, lightly lit skin. A partly visible hand and jeans appear at the left edge of the frame.

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Harold Pugh had inked staff lines for the Millbrook Silver Band for thirty-one years, and he could tell a clef by the sound of the nib on the paper. The treble clef was the hardest. You began at the bottom with a small loop, drew up through the staff in one unbroken swoop, and only lifted the pen once the curl at the top had gone round twice. Get it wrong and the whole part looked like a hook somebody had dropped.

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On the Thursday before the Whitsun contest, Eileen Ashworth brought in the cornet part for the new test piece, and it was a mess. Someone had copied it by lamplight, and every clef on the sheet had been scratched out and redrawn so many times that the paper had gone grey. She set it on his desk and tapped the dot beside the fourth line. "Is that meant to be there?" she asked. Harold put on his glasses and looked for a long time before he answered. It was not a mistake. His brother Walter had always placed that dot, a small habit from their father's shop, and Harold had carried it into every part he copied since Walter died without once thinking about it.

He took a clean sheet, ruled the staves, and began again. Eileen watched the loop form, then the long climb, then the curl. When he had finished he set the dot in place with a steady hand and blew gently across the ink.

"There," he said. "Now it's right for the band."

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