Stickers inside pianos

[Ron Nossaman]

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

I don't know. I never looked into it. The PTG, however, does print 
pressure sensitive stickers, or something as crude as printer labels 
or masking tape will serve quite adequately to stick the information 
to the piano in an out of sight location. Whatever. It's not for 
anyone but the tech, and I want it to stay there dependably.


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

And how do you record information on the magnetic card? It's the 
tuning and climate information that's the important part for the 
stealth sticker. Not the name of the tuner. Again, this isn't for 
advertising. It's a tuning record.


> 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???

Not in my opinion. I'd prefer to have the data with the piano, on 
site, without wasting time unnecessarily looking it up in a database 
beforehand that has probably evaporated in the last operating system 
crash. By all means, keep whatever records you like at home, but I 
appreciate (and supply) the tuning and climate history right there 
in the piano. I expect it's just me (as usual), but I'd prefer to be 
anal about something interesting, rather than this sort of thing. A 
few seconds of data entry on a record that stays with the piano will 
be potentially valuable information for anyone who is at some future 
point in the presence of the piano and trying to make sense of some 
tuning or regulation anomaly. I consider keeping the tuning record 
in a private database more a case of the dog marking territory than 
keeping it in the piano where it can do whoever might wander by and 
benefit from it some good.


> Again, just my thoughts...

And again, just mine...

Ron N