Tattoosday in Massachusetts: Ariel and Her F-Holes

On our way back to New York after a brief stint in Boston, we stopped in Northampton to visit our friends, Anne and Liz.<br /><br />At their house, I met their friend Ariel.<br /><br />At one point in the conversation, I asked Ariel if she played the violin.<br /><br />Initially, she looked surprised that I would ask, but I pointed to the tattoo on her inner forearm, which had tipped me off:<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgXViWyJ-8-idfWPzazroJLStpdvWDwTxv2osVS5-HLmGnxlaLlLcCHIe3TS67CRoWvlb8uQSimaLTC0kXNQErDunl9meitpcqK95mlDph8WPpxBsoACNl2L5PGpZyWe2QgyxSUvFgbx-k/w436-h615/IMG_0870.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgXViWyJ-8-idfWPzazroJLStpdvWDwTxv2osVS5-HLmGnxlaLlLcCHIe3TS67CRoWvlb8uQSimaLTC0kXNQErDunl9meitpcqK95mlDph8WPpxBsoACNl2L5PGpZyWe2QgyxSUvFgbx-k/w436-h615/IMG_0870.JPG" width="282" /></a></div><br />Ariel explained that these are, indeed, representative of a violin's <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sound_hole">sound holes</a>, commonly referred to as the "F holes." She elaborated:<br /><blockquote class="tr_bq">"I play the violin. I love violin music and fiddle music and this is exactly where, if you h0ld the violin ... if the sun were shining through ... the violin,  I feel it would pierce right there, while you were playing ... It's just a good spot that always reminds me of it, but it's also not very visible and ... these are abstractions of it, they're not perfect, I drew them myself. They're not traced from an actual violin."</blockquote>Ariel had this tattoo done at <a href="http://www.luckystattoo.org/">Lucky's Tattoo & Piercing</a> in Northampton.<br /><br />Thanks to Ariel for sharing her musical tattoo with us here on Tattoosday!<br /><br /><b id="docs-internal-guid-37263786-79e7-f6c6-2951-0e4c72a25942" style="font-weight: normal;"></b><br /><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.15; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><b id="docs-internal-guid-37263786-79e7-f6c6-2951-0e4c72a25942" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">This entry is ©2013 Tattoosday.</span></span></b></div><b id="docs-internal-guid-37263786-79e7-f6c6-2951-0e4c72a25942" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></span><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.15; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">If you are seeing this on another website other than Tattoosday, without attribution, please note that it has been copied without the author's permission and is in violation of copyright laws. Please feel free to visit</span><a href="http://tattoosday.blogspot.com/" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">http://tattoosday.blogspot.com</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> and read our original content. Please let me know if you saw this elsewhere so I contact the webmaster of the offending site and advise them of this violation in their Terms of Use Agreement.</span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></div></b>

Tattoosday in Massachusetts: Ariel and Her F-Holes

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