Noodler's Tchaikovsky

[yazeh]

Noodler's Tchaikovsky is a bulletproof/fluorescent, muted purple ink, belonging to the Russian series. It's more expensive than traditional Noodle's inks. 

 

A bit about the composer: 

 

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, (7 May 1840 – 6 November 1893), well known for his Swan Lake and Nutcracker ballets. 

It is ironic that one of the greatest Russian composers was educated for a career as a civil servant as music wasn't a viable option at his time. Even more ironic his music wasn't “Russian” enough for some of his compatriots. 

 

I was 11 or 12, when I discovered his violin concerto, by the legendary Nathan Milstein. It remains to this day, one of my favorite concertos. 

and soon after I discovered his First piano concerto in the electrifying 1941 version, with Vladimir Horowitz and Arturo Toscanini. It is a recording that will never age.

 

I could go on and on about Tchaikovsky, but this is an ink review after all, and to paraphrase a movie quote, I doubt this ink would make classical music lovers fans of fountain pens or ink lovers fan of Tchaikovsky's music 😅

 

 

I’m not sure why Mr. Tardiff used this muted purple to represent Tchaikovsky. Like most bulletproof inks it doesn't shade and like most fluorescent inks, it's well behaved and easy to clean. Though it can and will stain demonstrators, which with a touch of Doyou or Noodler's Red Eel, it could be fixed, if you really insist on using this ink with a transparent section :😜

 

 

Let's start with the chroma:

 

I really love muted purples,  it has a silver haze about it on Tomoe River 68gr:

 

Writing samples:

All quotes are by Tchaikovsky. 

 

Hammermill Printer Paper, Premium Multipurpose Paper 20 lb paper. 

Comparison: 

 

 

Excellent waterproofness. Ink didn't budges under running water:

 

And finally a sketch, a homage to Tchaikovsky:

And the fluorescence

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· Pens used: Pilot Kakuno (Ef /Stub) Lamy Safari (Ef/F/M/B) / Jinaho 450 with an Ultraflex nib/ Jinhao 450 fude

· What I liked: Wet ink, muted purple, with the silver haze, well behaved. 

· What I did not like: Nothing much. 

· Shading: Only with fude nib.  

· Ghosting: This ink is best for coated paper. 

· Bleed through: Same as above.  

· Flow Rate: Excellent

· Lubrication: Excellent

· Nib Dry-out: None.

· Start-up: None.

· Saturation: Muted 

· Shading Potential: You can’t have it all

· Sheen: none.

· Spread / Feathering / Woolly Line: Didn’t notice.

· Nib Creep / “Crud”: No. 

· Staining (pen): It’s a purple ink, so it would stain. Though a bit of Sailor Doyou/ or Noodle's Red Eel will clean it up. 

· Clogging: No

· Cleaning: Surprisingly very easy

· Water resistance: Excellent

· Availability: 3 oz/ 90 ml bottles 

 

Please don't hesitate to comment or share your experience with this ink. The more the merrier

 

 

 

 

[inkstainedruth]

Thanks for the review.  I don't have any of the Noodler's Russian series inks except for Pasternak, but I may need to look into getting this one at some point (my wallet -- especially after the Baltimore-Washington show this past weekend -- does NOT thank you, BTW...).

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[LizEF]

Thanks for the review, @yazeh!   Very thorough, as always.  And good quotes for artists.   And I particularly like the piano-playing duck and his conductor!   Not sure about the color - will have to see it in person - but nice to know it's well-behaved.

[Karmachanic]

Thank you @yazeh.  Not my part of the colour spectrum.  As yet anyway.  I'll take the Horowitz tho'.

[yazeh]

  On 3/13/2023 at 4:45 PM, inkstainedruth said:

Thanks for the review.  I don't have any of the Noodler's Russian series inks except for Pasternak, but I may need to look into getting this one at some point (my wallet -- especially after the Baltimore-Washington show this past weekend -- does NOT thank you, BTW...).

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

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You're most welcome. I find the Russian series, in general better than the other varieties, even though I'm not enamoured with some of the authors/composers

  On 3/13/2023 at 5:29 PM, LizEF said:

Thanks for the review, @yazeh!   Very thorough, as always.  And good quotes for artists.   And I particularly like the piano-playing duck and his conductor!   Not sure about the color - will have to see it in person - but nice to know it's well-behaved.

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Most welcome. I was trying to do a play on the works of Tchaikovsky.. The Piano Concerto, the Swan (or Duck) Lake, The Nutcracker and the Queen of Spades Opera

 

 

  On 3/13/2023 at 6:04 PM, Karmachanic said:

Thank you @yazeh.  Not my part of the colour spectrum.  As yet anyway.  I'll take the Horowitz tho'.

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Ah that Horowitz is out of this world. I can't listen to any other version but this. Even the live 1943 one, they did after. This one is something else.

 

[LizEF]

  On 3/13/2023 at 6:53 PM, yazeh said:

Most welcome. I was trying to do a play on the works of Tchaikovsky.. The Piano Concerto, the Swan (or Duck) Lake, The Nutcracker and the Queen of Spades Opera

 

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  I caught the Nutcracker, and even the swan, but my fingers were typing while my eyes were looking at the "duckling" part of the piano's name - oops!   I confess, the Piano Concerto went right on by (other than the obvious fact that Mr. Swan is playing a piano).

[yazeh]

  On 3/13/2023 at 6:57 PM, LizEF said:

  I caught the Nutcracker, and even the swan, but my fingers were typing while my eyes were looking at the "duckling" part of the piano's name - oops!   I confess, the Piano Concerto went right on by (other than the obvious fact that Mr. Swan is playing a piano).

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I know. I'm jus teasing

I got inspired by this cover: Though the interoperation is a bit lacklustre

 

[LizEF]

  On 3/13/2023 at 7:08 PM, yazeh said:

I know. I'm jus teasing

I got inspired by this cover: Though the interoperation is a bit lacklustre

 

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Your version is better!  (Not just because it's more fun, but I like the angle of view you chose.)

[PithyProlix]

Thanks for the great review!

 

It's a color that's right up my alley - which means that I already have a few that are pretty close (and which shade well). 😉 Searching for it online shows that it looks to be another Noodler's ink that has changed color pretty radically. I like this newer shade much, much more.

 

I don't get why he named it Tchaikovsky either, though the color of the older version does seem to match the character of Tchaikovsky's music much more than this new one. Diamine pulled a similar thing and inexplicably named a soft purple-grey Vivaldi, the redheaded composer known as  'il Prete Rosso' - the Red Priest - whose music tends to be quite lively and vivacious.

 

OFF TOPIC:

I'm not sure if I've heard Milstein in the Tchaikovsky - I would guess he recorded it multiple times and I would imagine he is great in it - he's a favorite. My favorite recording of the Tchaikovsky violin concerto is Bronislaw Huberman's - the recording is now almost 100 years old. BTW, Huberman was a very interesting character - very famous in his day but now pretty obscure, he was responsible for creating an orchestra in what would become Israel and which served to get many Jewish musicians and their families out of Europe prior to the Holocaust. There's an interesting documentary about this called "Orchestra of Exiles" that I suspect you would find very interesting.

 

 

 

[InesF]

Thank you @yazeh for the holistic ink, music and image introduction that include audiophile and artistic excerpts (eye and ear candies)!

That's great! I didn't know about this old violin concert version - I love the sizzling noises of the vinyl disc. 🤭

 

While the ink colour is not a perfect match for me, your drawing is! Thank you!

[Detman101]

  On 3/13/2023 at 4:19 PM, yazeh said:

 

Noodler's Tchaikovsky is a bulletproof/fluorescent, muted purple ink, belonging to the Russian series. It's more expensive than traditional Noodle's inks. 

 

A bit about the composer: 

 

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, (7 May 1840 – 6 November 1893), well known for his Swan Lake and Nutcracker ballets. 

It is ironic that one of the greatest Russian composers was educated for a career as a civil servant as music wasn't a viable option at his time. Even more ironic his music wasn't “Russian” enough for some of his compatriots. 

 

I was 11 or 12, when I discovered his violin concerto, by the legendary Nathan Milstein. It remains to this day, one of my favorite concertos. 

and soon after I discovered his First piano concerto in the electrifying 1941 version, with Vladimir Horowitz and Arturo Toscanini. It is a recording that will never age.

 

I could go on and on about Tchaikovsky, but this is an ink review after all, and to paraphrase a movie quote, I doubt this ink would make classical music lovers fans of fountain pens or ink lovers fan of Tchaikovsky's music 😅

 

 

I’m not sure why Mr. Tardiff used this muted purple to represent Tchaikovsky. Like most bulletproof inks it doesn't shade and like most fluorescent inks, it's well behaved and easy to clean. Though it can and will stain demonstrators, which with a touch of Doyou or Noodler's Red Eel, it could be fixed, if you really insist on using this ink with a transparent section :😜

 

 

Let's start with the chroma:

 

I really love muted purples,  it has a silver haze about it on Tomoe River 68gr:

 

Writing samples:

All quotes are by Tchaikovsky. 

 

Hammermill Printer Paper, Premium Multipurpose Paper 20 lb paper. 

Comparison: 

 

 

Excellent waterproofness. Ink didn't budges under running water:

 

And finally a sketch, a homage to Tchaikovsky:

And the fluorescence

A

 

 

 

· Pens used: Pilot Kakuno (Ef /Stub) Lamy Safari (Ef/F/M/B) / Jinaho 450 with an Ultraflex nib/ Jinhao 450 fude

· What I liked: Wet ink, muted purple, with the silver haze, well behaved. 

· What I did not like: Nothing much. 

· Shading: Only with fude nib.  

· Ghosting: This ink is best for coated paper. 

· Bleed through: Same as above.  

· Flow Rate: Excellent

· Lubrication: Excellent

· Nib Dry-out: None.

· Start-up: None.

· Saturation: Muted 

· Shading Potential: You can’t have it all

· Sheen: none.

· Spread / Feathering / Woolly Line: Didn’t notice.

· Nib Creep / “Crud”: No. 

· Staining (pen): It’s a purple ink, so it would stain. Though a bit of Sailor Doyou/ or Noodle's Red Eel will clean it up. 

· Clogging: No

· Cleaning: Surprisingly very easy

· Water resistance: Excellent

· Availability: 3 oz/ 90 ml bottles 

 

Please don't hesitate to comment or share your experience with this ink. The more the merrier

 

 

 

 

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Excellent review, beautiful ink!
I usually have Noodlers inks blacklisted...this one I might get a sample of.

[yazeh]

  On 3/14/2023 at 10:44 AM, PithyProlix said:

Thanks for the great review!

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🙏

  On 3/14/2023 at 10:44 AM, PithyProlix said:

 

It's a color that's right up my alley - which means that I already have a few that are pretty close (and which shade well). 😉 Searching for it online shows that it looks to be another Noodler's ink that has changed color pretty radically. I like this newer shade much, much more.

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Me too. But if it's shading you're after, this is not suitable for that

  On 3/14/2023 at 10:44 AM, PithyProlix said:

 

I don't get why he named it Tchaikovsky either, though the color of the older version does seem to match the character of Tchaikovsky's music much more than this new one. Diamine pulled a similar thing and inexplicably named a soft purple-grey Vivaldi, the redheaded composer known as  'il Prete Rosso' - the Red Priest - whose music tends to be quite lively and vivacious.

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I can try to extrapolate and find a reason, but then we don't know what stimulates, ink makers imagination. 

  On 3/14/2023 at 10:44 AM, PithyProlix said:

 

OFF TOPIC:

I'm not sure if I've heard Milstein in the Tchaikovsky - I would guess he recorded it multiple times and I would imagine he is great in it - he's a favorite.

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Mine too. I love almost everything by Milstein, especially Bach Sonatas and partitas, even though I have this thing for historically accurate instruments.   

  On 3/14/2023 at 10:44 AM, PithyProlix said:

 

 

My favorite recording of the Tchaikovsky violin concerto is Bronislaw Huberman's - the recording is now almost 100 years old. BTW, Huberman was a very interesting character - very famous in his day but now pretty obscure, he was responsible for creating an orchestra in what would become Israel and which served to get many Jewish musicians and their families out of Europe prior to the Holocaust. There's an interesting documentary about this called "Orchestra of Exiles" that I suspect you would find very interesting.

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I'll listen to Huberman's version with an open ear  What I like about this version of Milstein is his precision and the fine line between virtuoso and musical  You made me curious about that documentary, I'll check it out, thank you. 

  On 3/14/2023 at 10:44 AM, PithyProlix said:

 

 

 

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  On 3/14/2023 at 12:30 PM, InesF said:

Thank you @yazeh for the holistic ink, music and image introduction that include audiophile and artistic excerpts (eye and ear candies)!

That's great! I didn't know about this old violin concert version - I love the sizzling noises of the vinyl disc. 🤭

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Actually this is not the oldest Milstein recording. But I agree, thee's something about the sound of vinyl, that's mesmerizing in it's imperfection

  On 3/14/2023 at 12:30 PM, InesF said:

 

While the ink colour is not a perfect match for me, your drawing is! Thank you!

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Most welcome!

  On 3/14/2023 at 1:09 PM, Detman101 said:

Excellent review, beautiful ink!
I usually have Noodlers inks blacklisted...this one I might get a sample of.

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Thank you! 

Just to let you know, if it's shading you're after, this one doesn't shade that much 

 

[txomsy]

That certainly looks like an ink I would like to use. Will have to add to my list.

[yazeh]

 

  On 3/14/2023 at 3:30 PM, txomsy said:

That certainly looks like an ink I would like to use. Will have to add to my list.

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It's tempting isn't it

[PithyProlix]

  On 3/14/2023 at 3:23 PM, yazeh said:

I love almost everything by Milstein, especially Bach Sonatas and partitas, even though I have this thing for historically accurate instruments.   

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Milstein's solo Bach is incredible. I'm no purist - I really enjoy Chris Thile's version on the mandolin, even. 

[yazeh]

  On 3/14/2023 at 6:08 PM, PithyProlix said:

 

Milstein's solo Bach is incredible. I'm no purist - I really enjoy Chris Thile's version on the mandolin, even. 

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It's the interpretation that matters not the histriocity of the instrument, I agree most of the time. But there's something magical when you hear the interpretation on the instrument it was meant to be. 

 

I truly enjoyed Huberman's interpretation. What an exquisite interpretation, 🙏

 

[Detman101]

  On 3/14/2023 at 3:23 PM, yazeh said:

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Me too. But if it's shading you're after, this is not suitable for that

Just to let you know, if it's shading you're after, this one doesn't shade that much 

 

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And on that note...there are no longer any "Noodlers" inks in my field of consideration
😆

[yazeh]

  On 3/16/2023 at 12:59 PM, Detman101 said:

And on that note...there are no longer any "Noodlers" inks in my field of consideration
😆

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[amberleadavis]

Thank you for this amazing review.

[yazeh]

  On 3/16/2023 at 3:34 PM, amberleadavis said:

Thank you for this amazing review.

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You're too kind