Time Machine.

[Kristinn Leifsson]

A tuner that stopped working many years ago used to pin a service sheet
onto the inside of the pianos he tuned.  

This way I can sometimes tell people stuff like; "Well ma´am your piano was
last tuned october 5th 1974".  

They tend to do a mock fainting upon hearing that.

Kristinn Leifsson,
Reykjavík, Iceland. 

At 09:50 25.4.2000 -0400, you wrote:
>Hi Ron,
>
>Thanks for starting this thread.  I've often wondered about those names I
>see written in various places on the piano, and the lives of those who
>signed their names so well.  (Has anyone else noticed how neat some of those
>signatures are?)
>
>On an old Baldwin grand I rebuilt last year, there was a little spot, on one
>of the beams  with wording something like "a ma bella femme  1915" or
>something similar.  If only these old pianos could talk, the stories they'd
>tell...
>
>I've never signed my name in any fashion on a piano, regardless of what I've
>done.  Somehow, I think that I've felt inadequate to put my name on them.
>But I'm thinking that I might start placing a small mark on the pianos that
>go through my shop, if for no other reason than for others to know just a
>hint of where it's been, even if I'm long gone.  Perhaps a signature and a
>date, and maybe even an idea of what I did, such as "Soundboard & Pinblock,
>2000".
>
>Brian Trout
>Quarryville, PA
>btrout@desupernet.net
>
>
>