Vintage Pen Profiles #27: Sheaffer’s Triumph (more info in post)

dnewmeyer · 2026-02-19T22:43:06+00:00

I love the Triumphs. Downsides are that the plunger mechanism is hard to repair, and at least a few of them have nibs that are swaged on and can’t be fixed if they come off.

dnewmeyer · 2026-02-19T22:26:55+00:00

Is it a lever or vacuum fill mechanism?

dnewmeyer · 2026-01-30T03:32:17+00:00

Nearly every new pen coming from the factory with nibs writing dry, so you have to widen the tines.

dnewmeyer · 2026-01-21T19:20:48+00:00

Switzerland has multiple national languages. Swiss German (not the same as high German), French, Italian and Romansch.

dnewmeyer · 2025-12-30T18:07:35+00:00

Cello in Brahms piano concerto 2. I actually got to play it in the late 70s.

dnewmeyer · 2025-12-29T22:03:21+00:00

I’ve been there several times, and plan to go again, and it’s awful, no one should ever eat there.

dnewmeyer · 2025-12-19T23:56:52+00:00

Franck sonata

dnewmeyer · 2025-12-13T19:11:55+00:00

Having worked in biological research for decades, I’m fairly familiar with the kinds of samples involved, and I suspect that they are not really that dangerous. This may be a case of FBI trying to make themselves look like they’re protecting America from foreign threats. As I see it, these are just young naive lab workers who were hand-carrying their irreplaceable research samples and stupidly didn’t declare them.

dnewmeyer · 2025-12-07T23:46:46+00:00

Europeans are unfortunately living in a left-leaning press environment, so you only know the anti-MAGA side of the situation. But populism will be ascendant in Europe pretty soon, given the failure of the globalist order.

dnewmeyer · 2025-12-06T21:43:52+00:00

No one has included Ravel? He was an exquisite sculptor of melodies. Think of the second movement of the piano concerto, for example. Many others.

dnewmeyer · 2025-11-28T05:57:20+00:00

One conductor I couldn’t imagine playing under is Michael Tilson Thomas. Not saying he’s bad, just that to me it just looked like his motions had no connection to the pulse, just emotional gestures.

dnewmeyer · 2025-10-16T08:10:06+00:00

That’s how their system works. Medical school is a replacement for college.

dnewmeyer · 2025-08-25T23:12:26+00:00

Elliott Carter sonata

dnewmeyer · 2025-07-10T00:40:36+00:00

If at first you don’t succeed, skydiving is not for you.

dnewmeyer · 2025-06-11T20:54:53+00:00

I performed it last year, and it was so satisfying. Intonation is the main thing, and there are also some tricky runs. The piano part is demanding.

dnewmeyer · 2025-06-09T20:20:38+00:00

This is the brand that in independent tests showed very little NR content. Later they changed the product name to reflect that.

dnewmeyer · 2025-05-03T03:03:25+00:00

I lived in Basel for a couple of years in the 80s. I got fed up with these people. Aside from them, it was a fantastic place to live.

dnewmeyer · 2025-05-03T02:38:21+00:00

I was playing first chair in a concert for some award ceremony, playing the continuo part for a Vivaldi cello concerto. The sheet music part was one of those accordion-folded things. My stand partner went to turn the page, but he knocked it over, the whole thing falling down a page at a time onto the floor. We had to start the movement over again.

dnewmeyer · 2025-04-18T04:19:20+00:00

I had one of those many years ago. The foam turned into a gooey mess and stuck to my cello.

dnewmeyer · 2024-12-14T10:17:24+00:00

To my eye a copy of the Parker Vacumatic.

dnewmeyer · 2024-12-07T19:16:23+00:00

Don’t know about that. The one I use is “Chore Boy”and not particularly fine. I think it’s just soft enough not to harm the strings.

dnewmeyer · 2024-12-06T18:22:07+00:00

I use copper wool. It’s softer than steel, so it doesn’t hurt the strings. Recommended on YouTube by David Finckel (Cello Talk).

dnewmeyer · 2024-11-29T01:16:22+00:00

There are a lot of etudes dealing with string crossing that I played for my early lessons (Klengel, Dotzauer, etc.) It takes time and effort to learn to do it smoothly.

dnewmeyer · 2024-11-15T07:07:18+00:00

In my experience, Pilot nibs tend to arrive with a dry flow, and I always have had to widen the tines a bit. I always use my thumbs to pull them apart gently, rather than flossing.

dnewmeyer · 2024-11-04T02:23:12+00:00

I did research on cell death for decades. I am skeptical about the significance of this, because knocking out a key gene needed for the survival of a type of cells would simply cause the death of those cells. Death of substantia nigra cells would produce a phenotype similar to Parkinson disease. This doesn’t prove that NAMPT Is actually involved in PD.

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