Hi Ron, Well, if you have to use a sticker... don't they custom print stickers with that Post-It note adhesive? Personally, I like the magnetic card idea the best. All pianos have iron in them! ;-) I have to say that I've seen few stickers with much of any info on them, other than the date of the tuning, the tuner's name, and contact info. I can see the usefulness of leaving behind notes, but wouldn't it be better to keep a database with customer records? When Mrs. Peabody calls you regarding a problem with her piano that you serviced last month, wouldn't you rather have her records on your computer, rather than inside her piano??? Again, just my thoughts... Peace, Sarah ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ron Nossaman" <rnossaman@cox.net> To: "Geoff Sykes" <ivories.52@earthlink.net>; "Pianotech" <pianotech@ptg.org> Sent: Wednesday, March 23, 2005 6:23 PM Subject: Re: Stickers inside pianos > > A business card under the lid of uprights, or lying on the plate under the > music desk of grands with tuning dates and temperature/humidity readings > entered on the back does three things. It identifies the perpetrator of > the last tuning. It acts as a running long term history of maintenance and > climate (I never take the old cards out). And last of all, it often > disappears, rendering all of the above useless. Therefor, a stealth > sticker of some sort on the underside of the music desk in grands, and on > the back side of the front board of verticals, will retain the history > without the owner (and quite likely any subsequent tuner) ever being aware > it's even there. No, it's not a mindless macho male marking of territory, > nor a scribbling defacement of the treasured ancestral photo gallery > display stand. It's an attempt to retain diagnostic information with the > piano for the benefit of both the owner, and this year's tech (should > he/she notice), in spite of peoples' insistence on taking the cards out > and losing the information. How many pianos do you suppose you have tuned > that had a sticker on the underside of the music desk, or the back side of > the front board, that you didn't notice even when you had the thing apart? > > _______________________________________________ > pianotech list info: https://www.moypiano.com/resources/#archives > >
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