In-Piano Records Revisited

[Donnie Byrd]

Carl Root wrote:
> 
> 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
One reason to put the info there is piano owners seem to enjoy having
the history there.  Donnie