*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 >
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