In-Piano Records Revisited back

[pianoman]

 Hi Bill,
I too have seen multiple tuning records inside pianos and I, like others,
used to cover them up with my own new stickers.  For the past few years I
have been leaving all the others and just posting mine in a different
place.  It does add character to the insides and they are going to call who
they want to tune regardless if your name is first or last.  \	Making
disparaging remarks about other tuners inside I haven't run across, since
1962, and hope I never do.  I try to have the outlook that everyone else is
 at least as good as I so I better try harder to keep their business.
James Grebe
R.P.T. of the P.T.G. from St. Louis, MO. USA, Earth
Piano Service and Piano Periperals
Hardwood PLTR's and Custom Piano Benches
pianoman@inlink.com          Only my personal best is good enough

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> From: Maxpiano@aol.com
> To: pianotech@ptg.org
> Subject: In-Piano Records Revisited
> Date: Saturday, July 04, 1998 7:40 AM
> 
> List,
> 
> Some time back there was a thread on writing inside the piano- tuning
date,
> etc.  I've been seeing penciled date and initials on piano plates ever
since I
> began tuning in the '50's.
> 
> But now a new wrinkle as I've begun doing some of the work at a "most
unusual"
> university.  It seems that this institution has of long standing been
hiring
> their tuning work done by an area business that has at any time sent any
one
> of their several tuners (mostly family).  I am finding several sets of
records
> inside many pianos, as each particular technician has selected his spot,
be it
> keys, hammers or pin block, to scrawl his initials and then record the
> sporadic dates he particularly has tuned.
> 
> One Yamaha (butt plate vintage) has a section of 12-15 hammers numbered
for
> removal (to push in center pins?) with an extra notation, "why all this
crap?"
> 
> Which reminds me of the Gulbransen studio that I tune (no, touch up) once
a
> year.  Each time I open it I get to view a comment some technician wrote
about
> the previous one:  "Beware--Jackleg...speedy quack."  I'm glad I can
cover it
> up when I leave.
> 
> Back to the sporadic-- I think there is value to the same technician
keeping
> up with a particular piano, rather than it being passed around.  You get
to
> know a certain piano and what you have done to it, particularly if you
keep
> your own written records available.
> 
> Bill Maxim, RPT