I've never felt OK with writing anything on an instrument either (inside or out). I am amazed at the chutzpah of tuners who have signed the plate on grand pianos! One time I pulled off a huge sticker blocking the serial number on a C6. Another time, I was working on an S&S B that had the previous tech's magnetic business card on the plate--when the piano's owner saw it and thought it was glued to the piano, he was really angry. On the other hand, there was the time I was working on a vertical piano that contained a lot of signatures on the keys, the customer saw it and insisted that I sign it, too. I was contemplating the signatures on a Yamaha P2 that I fixed up (new spring cords, repinned flanges, shaped hammers, regulated, etc.) and wondered why those guys who signed the piano had never bothered to tighten the butt-plate screws... And why is it some people level the white keys but sort of forget to do the black keys?! Oops, I digress... BTW, the other day I heard one of the sleuths on The History Detectives use "which begs the question" in the way that means "which brings up the question." I thought of you all and smiled... Barbara Richmond, RPT near Peoria, Illinois ----- Original Message ----- From: "William Monroe" <bill at a440piano.net> To: pianotech at ptg.org Sent: Monday, January 18, 2010 9:20:46 PM GMT -06:00 US/Canada Central Subject: Re: [pianotech] Tuner's marks/cards Yes, I'd have to agree that this is a better system for me than writing on pianos. I've never felt OK writing anything on the instrument, even where "only I," will see it. This keeps the record secured reasonably well, and definitely allows for enough records. Certainly no system is perfect, but I like this idea. William R. Monroe -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech.php/attachments/20100119/59f92262/attachment-0001.htm>
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