In-Piano Records Revisited

[Jon Page]

Ditto.

Jon Page

At 11:15 AM 7/5/98 EDT, you wrote:
>In a message dated 7/5/98 6:52:29 AM Central Daylight Time,
>rootfamily@erols.com writes:
>
><< Fourteen cards!?  Now there's a puzzler.  The standard joke around here
> is that we use the card stock to shim key slips, grand actions, etc. 
> :-) >>
>
>That's what I use them for too, when needed.  I have a collection of about
300
>cards and also a mayonnaise jar full of pre-1965 coins that I have found in
>pianos.
>
>The piano dealer I work for keeps a computer file of everything that was done
>on each piano, each time.  But for my own customers, I keep no records other
>than the invoice which I fill out and seldom refer to later.  When I come to
>the piano the next time, I seem to remember everything about it.  If it has
>been a long time, what does it matter then?  What matters today is its
present
>condition,  not what might have been done or not been done any time in the
>past. Not wanting to sound arrogant, so no offense to Ron but I have always
>considered dates or anything else written in a piano to be "graffiti" and as
>such, is defacing to the instrument.
>
>When another tuner comes across a piano that I have cared for and finds it
>clean, well aligned and regulated, up to pitch but in an *unequal*
>temperament, he/she will know who was there last.  I can tell who has been
>there last as well when I find a dirty, unattended action, off-pitch,
reverse-
>well temperament condition.  If there have been "repairs", those often serve
>as a "calling card" in themselves.  The name might as well be written on it.
>
>It is surprising how very often, the most substandard work is accompanied by
>either a calling card or graffiti.  I'm with those who make what were
recently
>called "invisible" repairs.  The only difference between the hammer shank or
>the string that is replaced is the lack of patina on the new material.
Clean,
>in order, up to pitch in a musical tuning is the calling card that I
prefer to
>leave.
>
>Bill Bremmer RPT
>Madison, Wisconsin
>
>