numbering keys

[David Ilvedson]

I think as long as you can do it quickly without a lot work, stamping keys is just fine.   Certainly looks classy (if in the right spot).  I know my penmanship has not gotten better as I age..,i.e. I have to stop every 20 numbers to take a deep breath and proceed...otherwise they get a little funky by 88...'-]   I definitely use pencil...nothing worse than poorly written numbers in ink or (worse) felt pens...yuck!!!!

David Ilvedson, RPT
Pacifica, CA  94044

----- Original message ----------------------------------------
From: "Ron Nossaman" <rnossaman at cox.net>
To: "Pianotech List" <pianotech at ptg.org>
Received: 7/4/2008 5:32:58 PM
Subject: Re: numbering keys



>> Hi David ,
>>  
>> Here is a photo of the stamp and some stamped keys.
>>  
>> Jack Houweling


>Hi Jack, and anyone else following this thread,
>I presume the concern with the looks of the key numbering is 
>for yourself, or some future tech which will see the piano and 
>maybe judge you a clod if it's not classy enough. For 
>yourself, yea, I can see that. For the future tech, I'd be 
>less (not noticeably) concerned, particularly if he ignored 
>everything else I'd done to judge me on the key numbering. The 
>customer is pretty much entirely out of the loop, since they 
>don't typically go inside pianos, and if they do, they're much 
>more concerned with the cobwebs, dust, and sundry artifacts 
>(pencils, cards, toy trucks, etc) than something like key 
>numbers. It's probably just my junk DNA manifesting again, but 
>the return doesn't seem to me to justify the concern - except 
>on a personal level.

>Meanwhile, stamp on.
>Ron N