This is a multipart message in MIME format ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment Your welcome Mark, by the way I think it's a good idea not to= plaster the record sheet with your name...iow..."SERVICED BY= ACME PIANO SERVICE" "TUNER TO THE STARS"...that just assures= the next tech (there will be a next tech at some point) to toss= it...I keep a business card with it which hopefully will be= tossed instead... David Ilvedson Original message From: Mark Potter To: Pianotech Received: Thu, 24 Mar 2005 03:16:02 -0800 (PST) Subject: Re: Stickers inside pianos While I consider having a database at home mandatory, I agree= with Ron that having a modicum amount of info at the piano can= be significantly helpful, particularly in cases where you are= servicing the piano for the first time. David I's suggestion of= the pouch (uprights) by far makes the most sense to me in that= a) it is easily seen by the tech; b) allows for numerous= detailed postings in one unobtrusive location; and c) gives a= 'history-at-a-glance'. A few older uprights even have a handy= wooden 'pouch' as original equipment - unusually accommodating! = Of course this requires we approach pianos armed with pouches,= which hasn't happened in MY lifetime, so it remains a good idea= waiting to be implemented. Another round tuit patiently= waiting. Until then I continue to use the business card method= - it's too easy. Thanks for the tip about the 31/2" floppy containers, David. I'm= gonna check 'em out.... one of these days.... Mark Potter Ron Nossaman <rnossaman@cox.net> wrote: > 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 beh! ind 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 tr! ying 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 _______________________________________________ pianotech list info:= https://www.moypiano.com/resources/#archives ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/b1/a4/b5/37/attachment.htm ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment--
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