Stickers inside pianos

[Avery Todd]

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Avery

At 04:33 PM 3/23/05, you wrote:
>Most office supply stores sell business card size refrigerator type 
>magnets. They're inexpensive and come in packets of 25 or 50. One side is 
>the magnet part and the other side is peel off sticky so you can attach 
>your business card. I find that attaching one of these to some innocuous 
>part of the plate, and then pointing it out to the client as a resource 
>for where to always be able to find my name and number works quite well. 
>It doesn't make any noise, it doesn't mess up the piano, you can write 
>notes on it if you like, it's not going to move around or fall off into 
>the works, and if the client, or a subsequent tuner, doesn't like it they 
>can easily remove it with no leftover anything.
>
>-- Geoff Sykes
>Los Angeles
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Terry <terry@farrellpiano.com>
>Sent: Mar 23, 2005 11:29 AM
>To: Pianotech <pianotech@ptg.org>
>Subject: Re: Stickers inside pianos
>
>Amen Sarah. Before I got into this business I had just bought a brand new
>1098. I used to open it up and admire the beautiful insides - kinda like
>admiring the chrome on a Ferrari engine. The tuner came for our one free
>tuning and when done ALMOST attached his PTG sticker to the pinblock. I
>almost broke his arm stopping him - not really, but I was definitely fuming.
>
>My recommendation, if you want to use a sticker, is to at least ask before
>applying.
>
>Unless, of course, it is a 1948 Story & Clark spinet or some-such.
>
>Terry Farrell
>
> > Personally, I get a bit ticked when I see a tuner's adhesive sticker
> > plastered on/in a piano.  Stickers are fine for furnaces and garbage
> > disposals, but we're talking about a piano.  Stickers are tacky and are
>less
> > than respectful to the piano (and the owner), IMO.  Of course that's not
>as
> > bad as tuners who scribble on nonreplaceable parts!  (Piano graffiti.)
>IMO,
> > if you repair/replace it, you're entitled to leave your mark on it.  If
>all
> > you do is turn pins, permanently branding the piano is bad form.  It's a
>bit
> > like a dog marking a tree.
> >
> > I respet the tuners who leave business cards under the lids of uprights.
>It
> > shows respect for the pianos and their owners.  But of course those cards
> > might wander.  Perhaps a neater, more functional approach would be to use
> > some adhesive photograph corners -- the ones used in photo albums and
> > sometimes for archival framing.  They're not expensive.  Stick the four
> > corners very neatly in place atop the framing, underneath the lid, and
>then
> > insert a business card.  When you return, you can just insert a new
>business
> > card with fresh date info, etc.  If/when the owner decides to move and/or
> > get a different tuner/tech, you will have at least given that person the
> > respect of providing him/her a less tacky means for the NEXT tuner/tech to
> > leave his/her info behind.  The owner can insist that the new tuner/tech
> > insert a business card, instead of plastering the piano with yet another
> > offensive sticker.
> >
> > Doing this would tell the piano owner you truly care about the piano AND
> > that you truly care about the presentation of your business.  It's similar
> > to the Japanese custom of presenting business cards in an open palm,
> > correctly oriented towards the recipient, rather than flinging the card
> > haphazardly at the person.
> >
> > Just my opinion...
> >
> > Peace,
> > Sarah
> >
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Doug Renz Piano Tuning / Repair" <pianotuner@frontiernet.net>
> > To: <pianotech@ptg.org>
> > Sent: Wednesday, March 23, 2005 10:45 AM
> > Subject: Stickers inside pianos
> >
> >
> > > Do you know where you can buy, make stickers to place inside pianos that
> > > you service? I am looking for ones that will last.
> > >
> > > Thanks.
> > >
> > > Doug Renz
> > > Associate PTG
> > > pianotuner@frontiernet.net
> > >
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