Stickers inside pianos

[Sarah Fox]

Hi Ron,

Well, if you have to use a sticker...  don't they custom print stickers with 
that Post-It note adhesive?

Personally, I like the magnetic card idea the best.  All pianos have iron in 
them!  ;-)

I have to say that I've seen few stickers with much of any info on them, 
other than the date of the tuning, the tuner's name, and contact info.  I 
can see the usefulness of leaving behind notes, but wouldn't it be better to 
keep a database with customer records?  When Mrs. Peabody calls you 
regarding a problem with her piano that you serviced last month, wouldn't 
you rather have her records on your computer, rather than inside her 
piano???

Again, just my thoughts...

Peace,
Sarah


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ron Nossaman" <rnossaman@cox.net>
To: "Geoff Sykes" <ivories.52@earthlink.net>; "Pianotech" 
<pianotech@ptg.org>
Sent: Wednesday, March 23, 2005 6:23 PM
Subject: Re: Stickers inside pianos


>
> A business card under the lid of uprights, or lying on the plate under the 
> music desk of grands with tuning dates and temperature/humidity readings 
> entered on the back does three things. It identifies the perpetrator of 
> the last tuning. It acts as a running long term history of maintenance and 
> climate (I never take the old cards out). And last of all, it often 
> disappears, rendering all of the above useless. Therefor, a stealth 
> sticker of some sort on the underside of the music desk in grands, and on 
> the back side of the front board of verticals, will retain the history 
> without the owner (and quite likely any subsequent tuner) ever being aware 
> it's even there. No, it's not a mindless macho male marking of territory, 
> nor a scribbling defacement of the treasured ancestral photo gallery 
> display stand. It's an attempt to retain diagnostic information with the 
> piano for the benefit of both the owner, and this year's tech (should 
> he/she notice), in spite of peoples' insistence on taking the cards out 
> and losing the information. How many pianos do you suppose you have tuned 
> that had a sticker on the underside of the music desk, or the back side of 
> the front board, that you didn't notice even when you had the thing apart?
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