---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment I knew I should have downloaded my e-mail before I posted my last one! :-) Avery At 04:33 PM 3/23/05, you wrote: >Most office supply stores sell business card size refrigerator type >magnets. They're inexpensive and come in packets of 25 or 50. One side is >the magnet part and the other side is peel off sticky so you can attach >your business card. I find that attaching one of these to some innocuous >part of the plate, and then pointing it out to the client as a resource >for where to always be able to find my name and number works quite well. >It doesn't make any noise, it doesn't mess up the piano, you can write >notes on it if you like, it's not going to move around or fall off into >the works, and if the client, or a subsequent tuner, doesn't like it they >can easily remove it with no leftover anything. > >-- Geoff Sykes >Los Angeles > > >-----Original Message----- >From: Terry <terry@farrellpiano.com> >Sent: Mar 23, 2005 11:29 AM >To: Pianotech <pianotech@ptg.org> >Subject: Re: Stickers inside pianos > >Amen Sarah. Before I got into this business I had just bought a brand new >1098. I used to open it up and admire the beautiful insides - kinda like >admiring the chrome on a Ferrari engine. The tuner came for our one free >tuning and when done ALMOST attached his PTG sticker to the pinblock. I >almost broke his arm stopping him - not really, but I was definitely fuming. > >My recommendation, if you want to use a sticker, is to at least ask before >applying. > >Unless, of course, it is a 1948 Story & Clark spinet or some-such. > >Terry Farrell > > > Personally, I get a bit ticked when I see a tuner's adhesive sticker > > plastered on/in a piano. Stickers are fine for furnaces and garbage > > disposals, but we're talking about a piano. Stickers are tacky and are >less > > than respectful to the piano (and the owner), IMO. Of course that's not >as > > bad as tuners who scribble on nonreplaceable parts! (Piano graffiti.) >IMO, > > if you repair/replace it, you're entitled to leave your mark on it. If >all > > you do is turn pins, permanently branding the piano is bad form. It's a >bit > > like a dog marking a tree. > > > > I respet the tuners who leave business cards under the lids of uprights. >It > > shows respect for the pianos and their owners. But of course those cards > > might wander. Perhaps a neater, more functional approach would be to use > > some adhesive photograph corners -- the ones used in photo albums and > > sometimes for archival framing. They're not expensive. Stick the four > > corners very neatly in place atop the framing, underneath the lid, and >then > > insert a business card. When you return, you can just insert a new >business > > card with fresh date info, etc. If/when the owner decides to move and/or > > get a different tuner/tech, you will have at least given that person the > > respect of providing him/her a less tacky means for the NEXT tuner/tech to > > leave his/her info behind. The owner can insist that the new tuner/tech > > insert a business card, instead of plastering the piano with yet another > > offensive sticker. > > > > Doing this would tell the piano owner you truly care about the piano AND > > that you truly care about the presentation of your business. It's similar > > to the Japanese custom of presenting business cards in an open palm, > > correctly oriented towards the recipient, rather than flinging the card > > haphazardly at the person. > > > > Just my opinion... > > > > Peace, > > Sarah > > > > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Doug Renz Piano Tuning / Repair" <pianotuner@frontiernet.net> > > To: <pianotech@ptg.org> > > Sent: Wednesday, March 23, 2005 10:45 AM > > Subject: Stickers inside pianos > > > > > > > Do you know where you can buy, make stickers to place inside pianos that > > > you service? I am looking for ones that will last. > > > > > > Thanks. > > > > > > Doug Renz > > > Associate PTG > > > pianotuner@frontiernet.net > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > pianotech list info: https://www.moypiano.com/resources/#archives > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > pianotech list info: https://www.moypiano.com/resources/#archives > > > > >_______________________________________________ >pianotech list info: https://www.moypiano.com/resources/#archives > >_______________________________________________ >pianotech list info: https://www.moypiano.com/resources/#archives ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/ef/57/b5/04/attachment.htm ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment--
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