NEW QuikStaff Musicians Pen - Draws a 5 Line Music Staff on Any Blank Paper 2021 UPDATED

Touch screen? Really??

I am glad I have it. I wish the pens were better, or felt tipped instead of ballpoint. I often have to do some scribbles to get all five pens working together. But it makes writing in my music students' notebooks soooo much faster.

The concept is just five ball point pens put parallel to each other. The problem is that the ends of the five pens are loosely attached together by tape, and you have to be very careful that each pen gets even pressure to draw 5 lines together. Otherwise you get 4, sometimes 3 lines only. The pencil pointer is useless to me anyways. If one cannot afford the $40-50 Noligraph, this does a mediocre job just fine.

PRO: It's nice that you can draw a 5 lined music staff with this. I was surprised that there is a pencil tip side in addition to the 5 pen side.CON: It is difficult to open the lids and the ink does not flow very smoothly. The spaces are also too small to write note names on for my students. Fun for the novelty factor, but I'm just going to go back to drawing staff lines with a normal pen

The whole point of this product was to draw the staff at the same time, rather than use my ruler five times. The pen never lines up vertically because the ballpoints are not locked in place. The pencil side was also misleading -- it's only ONE pencil tip, NOT five.