1926 Underwood Portable 4 Bank #4B 72445
Status: My Collection
Hunter: Michael Bartelt (ProtestPoetics)
Created: 10-09-2020 at 04:01PM
Last Edit: 03-05-2021 at 11:54PM
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Description:
For nearing one hundred years since its manufacture, this machine types great. The glass keys are quintessentially classic, and these early Underwood Portables were favorites of many pre- and post-War writers. The Magician Orson Welles had one - same year - in simulated woodgrain, fitting for an artist with a keen aesthetic eye and a consummate flare for the dramatic. When you’re in a good groove with your fingers striking the keys just right, it’s almost like hitting all the frets on a guitar in perfect harmonic pitch. The metal ridges that rise slightly over the individual keys create this fret-ish effect. I’ve grown accustomed to using this machine to re-write and edit things that have already gone through multiple stages of drafting and revision - by no means in the everyday rotation. After all, she’s got to last another hundred years!
Writers: Jack Kerouac, Ernest Hemingway, William Faulkner, Orson Welles, Pablo Neruda
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- Orson Welles and his woodgrain Underwood Portable
- Jack Kerouac and his Underwood Portable
- William Faulkner and his Underwood Portable
- Pablo Neruda and his Underwood Portable
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Hunter: Michael Bartelt (ProtestPoetics)
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I'm an AP English instructor and poet who has married my processes and passions to these fine, old machines.
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