I think as long as you can do it quickly without a lot work, stamping keys is just fine. Certainly looks classy (if in the right spot). I know my penmanship has not gotten better as I age..,i.e. I have to stop every 20 numbers to take a deep breath and proceed...otherwise they get a little funky by 88...'-] I definitely use pencil...nothing worse than poorly written numbers in ink or (worse) felt pens...yuck!!!! David Ilvedson, RPT Pacifica, CA 94044 ----- Original message ---------------------------------------- From: "Ron Nossaman" <rnossaman at cox.net> To: "Pianotech List" <pianotech at ptg.org> Received: 7/4/2008 5:32:58 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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