numbering keys

[Jack Houweling]

*stamp*stamp*stamp......... yes what a nuisance.

I do this because I think this is the right way to do it and that is my work 
ethic,
and I hate reading pencil marks so I guess it is for me.

Still stamping,
Jack Houweling


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ron Nossaman" <rnossaman at cox.net>
To: "Pianotech List" <pianotech at ptg.org>
Sent: Friday, July 04, 2008 5:32 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
>