Editing Quill (section)

==Uses==
Quill pens were used to write the vast majority of medieval manuscripts. Quill pens were also used to write ''[[Magna Carta]]'' and the [[United States Declaration of Independence|Declaration of Independence]].<ref name=":1" /> U.S. President [[Thomas Jefferson]] bred geese specially at [[Monticello]] to supply his tremendous need for quills.<ref name=":2">{{Cite news|url=https://www.csmonitor.com/2001/0828/p22s1-hfks.html|title=The mighty pen|date=2001-08-28|work=[[The Christian Science Monitor]]|access-date=2019-05-28|issn=0882-7729}}</ref><ref name=":0" />
Quill pens are still used today mainly by professional scribes and calligraphers.

Quills are also used as the [[plectrum]] material in [[string instruments]], particularly the [[harpsichord]].<ref name="Grove">{{Cite Grove |last=Koster |first=John |title=Quill}}</ref>

From the 17th to 19th centuries, the central tube of the quill was used as a priming tube (filled with gunpowder) for cannon fire.<ref>Famous fighters of the Fleet, Edward Fraser, 1904, p.100</ref>