Another newbie here! I've been collecting for about a year and am a great lover of the cursive typeface.  My favorite years are the 50's and who doesn't love a typewriter with color? I'm glad I found this board and look forward to participating as well as learning.

Hi Persiflage, and welcome! You should find lots of help, advice and insight here. What kind of ty[pewriters have you got?

Welcome from one newbie to another

@Ztyper I have 19. MWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!

I guess I should have taken the hint and started here.

My real name is Ed and I live in Brooklyn, NY. I don't think I have *ever* used an avatar before, and I admit I was shamelessly derivative of "persiflage" 's much better choice, so I had to settle for idle repartee.

I can't say what hatched the idea "I think I would like a typewriter again", but I see from the records that the Royal 10 I have been messing around with have just passed our one month anniversary, and I must say I am very happy in the relationship, and especially since she does not seem jealous that I immediately went about collecting a seraglio. I hardly touch them, honey!

It's easy to pick up portables, I see, and some have a great touch, but I think my heart belongs to the heavies - I was lucky in that the two seriously vintage office machines I bought responded to the most minor cleaning and lubrication, and new ribbons, and came back to life, which is immensely satisfying to a dilettante. I will give up the attempt of seriously tearing apart a machine before I start. It could just be a passing fad, but I feel like I have picked up a musical instrument that I had abandoned years before, and will not put down again. Indeed a manual typewriter is an instrument, powered by and guided by human muscles to put ink on paper the way a trumpet is guided by human muscles to produce music. And I find every time I type a page and go back to the plastic computer keyboard which never bothered me before, there is a SERIOUS cognitive dissonance! Now that I think of it that way, we have not given up acoustic instruments just because electronic one were invented, and perhaps more people will come to their senses and feel the same way about fine mechanical writing instruments. Meanwhile, I shall hoard them. ;)

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