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		<title>&#8220;No Ordinary Pencil&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Feb 2012 07:44:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sean</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have written a summary and posted it under the title &#8220;No Ordinary Pencil&#8220;. It will have a separate page and permanent link at the top of the menu. I still think of it as a work in progress and it will be updated from time to time, especially if I stumble upon something new. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blackwingpages.com&amp;blog=14725811&amp;post=2022&amp;subd=blackwingpages&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>One Sharp Blackwing</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Feb 2012 20:36:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sean</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is one of the few factory-sharpened Blackwings I&#8217;ve seen. The point has the telltale striations that come from being run across a belted sandpaper sharpener. You can see one in action at the 8:40 mark in this video. Why some were factory-sharpened and others weren&#8217;t is another one of those funny, hard-to-explain details. This [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blackwingpages.com&amp;blog=14725811&amp;post=1890&amp;subd=blackwingpages&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Blackwingerdämmerung</title>
		<link>http://blackwingpages.com/2012/02/16/blackwingerdammerung/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Feb 2012 02:28:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sean</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The twilight of the Blackwing has grown murky over the years. Even those with only a passing interest in the pencil are likely to have heard some version of the story, which usually centers around a machine breaking and that the company wouldn&#8217;t fix it. While the story does involve a broken machine, the end [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blackwingpages.com&amp;blog=14725811&amp;post=1818&amp;subd=blackwingpages&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Musical Barber-ism</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Feb 2012 06:45:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sean</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Another photograph of Samuel Barber, Blackwing 602 in-hand. Here is a link to a program from the WPR show To the Best of Our Knowledge, which addresses why it is we seem to love sad music. Featured in the segment is Barber&#8217;s Adagio for Strings. While I can understand and appreciate the author&#8217;s sentiment, that [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blackwingpages.com&amp;blog=14725811&amp;post=1783&amp;subd=blackwingpages&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Nelson Riddle with Peggy Lee</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Feb 2012 10:28:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sean</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Nelson Riddle has already been listed here as being a Blackwing user, but this relatively new photo (with Blackwing in tow) bears mentioning him again. Among well-known Blackwing users Riddle was one of the few who went so far as to mention the 602 as being one of his favorite tools. From Arranged by Nelson Riddle (Alfred Music Publishing, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blackwingpages.com&amp;blog=14725811&amp;post=1763&amp;subd=blackwingpages&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Eight Six Hundred Twos</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Feb 2012 09:17:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sean</dc:creator>
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		<title>Famous Blackwing 602 Users: Ferdie Grofé</title>
		<link>http://blackwingpages.com/2012/02/12/famous-blackwing-602-users-ferdie-grofe/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Feb 2012 06:52:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sean</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ferdie Grofé (1892-1972) was a composer, arranger, and pianist. Known also as the &#8220;Prime (or Prince) Minister of Jazz&#8221; (working under Paul Whiteman, who was sometimes referred to as the &#8220;King of Jazz&#8221;), Grofé became widely recognized for his arrangement of Gershwin&#8217;s Rhapsody in Blue in 1924. Originally composed for two pianos, the lush, colorful [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blackwingpages.com&amp;blog=14725811&amp;post=1735&amp;subd=blackwingpages&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Flak.</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2012 02:33:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sean</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I noticed that a well-known art supply store &#8220;appropriated&#8221; some original content from this site, both graphics and text (see screen grab below, click to enlarge), to help sell their CalCedar products. While the Copland photograph is from the A.P., the one they used was taken from this site. The picture of the vintage Blackwings [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blackwingpages.com&amp;blog=14725811&amp;post=1609&amp;subd=blackwingpages&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Famous Blackwing 602 Users: Paul Carlson</title>
		<link>http://blackwingpages.com/2012/01/26/famous-blackwing-602-users-paul-carlson/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jan 2012 20:46:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sean</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The discipline with which the Blackwing is perhaps most strongly associated is animation, about which Chuck Jones once said: &#8220;&#8230;a flurry of drawings created by a Blackwing pencil; animation that dignifies itself as craft—a dying craft of aging men.&#8221; Paul Carlson began his career at Disney working in the mailroom, but would eventually rise to the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blackwingpages.com&amp;blog=14725811&amp;post=1600&amp;subd=blackwingpages&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;It Writes Before You Do&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://blackwingpages.com/2012/01/15/it-writes-before-you-do/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Jan 2012 02:15:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sean</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m not sure what it was, but today I was reminded of the reaction a good friend of mine had when she first tried a Blackwing 602, and in particular, what she said. Writing on Clairefontaine music paper (which is the same stock as their Triomphe line), she immediately paused after the first letter, incredulously [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blackwingpages.com&amp;blog=14725811&amp;post=1590&amp;subd=blackwingpages&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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