Chopin - Diamine Music Set

[visvamitra]

Manufacturers since 1864, Diamine Inks relocated to this purpose built 'state of the art' factory in Liverpool in 1925, where they successfully carried on using the traditional methods and formulas for ink production. Over the years the company has changed hands and are now located close to the world famous Aintree Race Course

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Diamine offers interesting ink gift sets. The idea is nice but I'm not interested in full lines of inks, rather in colors I enjoy. That's why I'm pleased to say Diamine will offer all of their inks also in 30 ml plastic bottles. A friend of mine send me the samples of Music Set inks. I'll review them here.

1. Bach
2. Beethoven
3. Chopin
4. Handel
5. Mozart
6. Schubert
7. Strauss
8. Tchaikovsky
9. Vivaldi
10. Wagner

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Chopin is rather grim. I even thought aboue embedding Funeral March here but decided it would be way too much.

Anyway the ink is well behaved and to my surprise I kind of enjoy it.

Ink Splash

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Drops of ink on kitchen towel

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Software ID

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Color range

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Oxford Recycled - Kaweco Sport Classic, zakraplacz, B

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Comparison

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Edited January 24, 2015 by visvamitra

[dan in montreal]

It looks like an "in-between" ink, not blue, not grey, spot in the middle, at least on my monitor. Sort of like Eclipse, of the same brand (black and purple).

Thanks for these great scans.

[Stu L]

Interesting ink - the shading looks fairly extreme, punching from very faint to quite dark.

[Newjelan]

I love this ink, it's my favourite of the Music Set inks. It's a little more blue in reality than what I'm seeing via my iPad.

[The Good Captain]

It's a nice ink and even though I don't 'do' greys, this is one I'd consider. Along with the Silver Fox and Graphite.

Edited January 25, 2015 by The Good Captain

[Michael R.]

This seems to be a very nice ink! I've bought the set over a year ago and haven't tried any of those inks

 

Your wonderful reviews always remind me of the beautiful inks I have and makes me go to my ink cabinet to try them

 

Looks like some others from this series will make it into daily rotation soon!

 

Cheers

 

Michael

[Tas]

I really enjoy these "vintage" looking bluey greys and this has flown under my radar for some reason.

 

I will investigate further. Thanks vismamitra. Thanks a lot . . .

[Uncial]

Hope it's ok to resurrect this thread to add a few observations. I'm slightly suspicious that I have a wonky batch, so if those of you who have it could confirm or rebuke my experiences that would be helpful.

The colour is very unusual and I'm quite fond of it. It appears to my eyes as a dark grey with a tiny hint of blue, but a more noticeable undertone of purple. But here's the strange thing I have found about it - it is a very, very quick drying ink (if I leave the cap off a gusher for more than ten seconds I get hard starts) yet it also has a tendency to feather and bleed on decent paper. It's good on Rhodia, but other papers have exhibited bleed and massive feathering, In my ink record book (Paperblanks) there are 54 entries and the only other inks that have any kind of feathering are Noodler's Forest Green and Noodler's Medway Blue (but neither have particularly bad feathering). In the same book on the same paper, Chopin is playing the page with wet fingers.I haven't seen anyone else mention this as an issue with this ink, which does make me wonder if I got a wonky batch (the other inks seem fine, but have't extensively used all of them yet).

[visvamitra]

I like to resurrect threads, they should serve as a platform to discussion and exchange of observations. What you say is intriguing, I haven't observed it in my sample

[Uncial]

Oh well, think I must have a dodgy bottle. Shame, because it's a lovely and unusual ink otherwise.

[Chrissy]

I have a sample of this ink and am going to review it very soon. I will be interested to see how it goes in my pens