In-Piano Records Revisited back

[pianoman]

Hi Carl,
I have found that some info is always better than none.
James Grebe
R.P.T. of the P.T.G. from St. Louis, MO. USA, Earth
Piano Service and Piano Periperals
Creator of Hardwood PLTR's and Custom Piano Benches
pianoman@inlink.com         If I wake up in the morning, it WILL be a great
day!

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> From: Carl Root <rootfamily@erols.com>
> To: pianotech@ptg.org
> Subject: Re: In-Piano Records Revisited
> Date: Sunday, July 05, 1998 6:31 AM
> 
> Ron Nossaman wrote:
> > 
> > Respectfully disagree. Anything you find in a piano that constitutes
service
> > history is potentially helpful.
> 
> Good morning, Ron.
> 
> I think a lot of technicians mistakenly believe that the piano owner
> will use this information.  If not, why leave the card?  Even with RH
> data, pitch level, and date,  you still don't know how accurately the
> piano was tuned, which is just as likely to be the reason the piano
> needs to be corrected as typical (or atypical?) humidity changes.
> 
> I like having records I can refer to.  That's why I bring a printout of
> their recent service history with me.  It's more detailed and more
> portable than anything I could scrawl on the keys.  The few times I've
> seen extensive service history inside the piano, it was too long ago to
> be of any use.  They called me and we're starting over.    
> 
> 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. 
> :-)
> 
> 
> "Kilroy was here . . . . . "      
> 
> 
> Carl