These day to day servicings are irrelevent in the overall scheme of things. Tuning archival history is useless. Regular maintenance is important. Scribing dates on the keys is no reminder, how many owners take the piano apart to see when the last tuning was. A card in the bench is adequite. It is not so important as to when it was tuned, but will it stay in tune. Writing mundane servicing only trashes the action. A descrete notation on a hammer moulding can reference a replacement date. Record keeping should be kept on a seperate piece of paper and left under the lid of an upright or in your files. To close, you have no right to place graffitti in someone's piano. Jon Page Harwich Port, Cape Cod, Mass. (jpage@capecod.net) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ note: please place replies at the top of the post, scrolling wastes time. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ At 07:40 PM 3/24/97 -0600, you wrote: >Hi all, > >I used to be very careful not to make any permenant marks inside a >piano--until I found that the first thing most dealers in my area do is >remove service record stickers. > >I feel that the tuning and repair history which is sometimes several >lifetimes is valueable to me as a tuner and of interest to future owners. So >I now careful use a pen on the keys to record the history. > >>They peer into the piano, examine the scrawled notation, and say "Wow! >>Look at that! Isn't that interesting!" They see it as a bit of history >>that adds color to the instrument. >> >>Oh well. It's not my piano. >> >> >>BTW, I think your oil change analogy is perfect, provided that the >>inscription is under the hood. >> >> >> >> >>Myler, Tom Jon Page Harwich Port, Cape Cod, Mass. (jpage@capecod.net) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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