Stickers inside pianos

[Tom Servinsky]

Ron,

I agree. I have mixed feelings on the stickers in the piano, but at least it 
stays where it's put. Customers have a tendency to take business cards or 
other service reminders and put them where they want them. Nothing worse 
than not being able to find important information when you need it.
Which is another good reason to plug the idea of the PDA. I keep a complete 
history of each client in my Dell Axim, complete with invoice numbers, amts, 
and when and what was done.
Tom Servinsky
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ron Nossaman" <rnossaman@cox.net>
To: "Pianotech" <pianotech@ptg.org>
Sent: Wednesday, March 23, 2005 11:37 PM
Subject: Re: Stickers inside pianos


>> 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
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