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08 Sep 18 - 03:18 PM (#3949065) Subject: Tech: Distinguishing black boxes & concertinas From: Leslie Butler My black concertina in its black box looks like an awful lot of other black concertinas in black boxes. Any suggestions on marking mine so's to spot it in a police line-up or crowded cloak room? |
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08 Sep 18 - 03:53 PM (#3949067) Subject: RE: Tech: Distinguishing black boxes & concertinas From: GUEST,Guest ? |
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08 Sep 18 - 04:01 PM (#3949069) Subject: RE: Tech: Distinguishing black boxes & concertinas From: Tootler Put a few stickers on the box |
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08 Sep 18 - 04:29 PM (#3949075) Subject: RE: Tech: Distinguishing black boxes & concertinas From: treewind Mine has a green ribbon it. (Handy hint: if you adopt this idea use a different colour) It's partly to distinguish mine from my wife's as she also plays concertina. Hers has a red ribbon on it. (Handy hint #2: don't use red either) |
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08 Sep 18 - 04:38 PM (#3949079) Subject: RE: Tech: Distinguishing black boxes & concertinas From: Jeri My box is rosewood, but it travels in an insulated fabric lunchbox. High-class, eh? |
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08 Sep 18 - 05:55 PM (#3949090) Subject: RE: Tech: Distinguishing black boxes & concertinas From: Steve Gardham My home-made wooden box covered in black leather is covered in stickers from various festivals, probably unique, as is what it contains. |
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08 Sep 18 - 08:13 PM (#3949111) Subject: RE: Tech: Distinguishing black boxes & concertinas From: GUEST,.gargoyle You pose an interesting question. Stickers - can be removed, or pasted over. Colored bands, cut off. My guess is, you are looking for a unique identifier that can identify your property, in a police photograph of 20 almost identical instruments? "Chipping" as in an animal IS is the most obvious. However, I believe you would like a remote ID, from a remote source. Using an "aPP ID" with imprinted pattern on the outfacing bellows may be discrete enough to flip the fellons. You may select a color frequency that is scarcely disernable to the naked eye, however leaps out when viewed in a pile on police contraband. Sincerely, gargoyle . Insurance is cheap...there is not a hot market for stolen concertinas |
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08 Sep 18 - 08:53 PM (#3949120) Subject: RE: Tech: Distinguishing black boxes & concertinas From: Gurney Carve/burn your name on the box, or paint it yellow. Get a leather-worker to make you coloured thumb-loops for the instrument. Record the number, which it should have. |
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09 Sep 18 - 08:14 AM (#3949195) Subject: RE: Tech: Distinguishing black boxes & concertinas From: Leslie Butler Thanks, all. Coloured thumb-loops could work, but aesthetically . . . I dunno, bit like putting go faster stripes on a hearse. Gargoyle - Thank you for correctly expounding my query but sorry, what is an app ID? other than being an app ID, I mean, for I presume you're not suggesting I install a sim card. |
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09 Sep 18 - 09:19 AM (#3949211) Subject: RE: Tech: Distinguishing black boxes & concertinas From: Steve Gardham You are not saying this is a security issue and presumably you are referring to container, not the contained, so there are numerous ways you can personalise your box for very little outlay if any. Mark on your initials in gold or silver sticky tape? |
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09 Sep 18 - 10:15 AM (#3949224) Subject: RE: Tech: Distinguishing black boxes & concertinas From: GUEST,Cj Hmm. Sometimes gigs can be quite dark and a simple ribbon may not quite cut it. I'd consider rubbing the box with fox poo, to give it a distinctive odour, also? |
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09 Sep 18 - 10:57 AM (#3949231) Subject: RE: Tech: Distinguishing black boxes & concertinas From: GUEST,paperback Fascinating Thread \ - : |
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09 Sep 18 - 12:51 PM (#3949256) Subject: RE: Tech: Distinguishing black boxes & concertinas From: Jack Campin A small amount of a gamma emitter inside. Just enough that you can identify it with a Geiger counter from across the room. |
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09 Sep 18 - 04:23 PM (#3949309) Subject: RE: Tech: Distinguishing black boxes & concertinas From: BobL I got into the habit of marking equipment with my postcode and house number in several places: - visibly on the back or underside, - in UV ink somewhere fairly visible - in UV ink somewhere where it's normally hidden - visibly on the inside (where a repairer would find it). BTW Leslie, thank you for your splendid addition, between Glass Hammer and Inflatable Dartboard, to my definitive list of useless items. |
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09 Sep 18 - 04:39 PM (#3949313) Subject: RE: Tech: Distinguishing black boxes & concertinas From: The Sandman open the concertina then on the inside reed pan use a gummed label with your name on it, i the event of theft it can be identified. |
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09 Sep 18 - 05:00 PM (#3949316) Subject: RE: Tech: Distinguishing black boxes & concertinas From: Steve Gardham definitive list of useless items. Here's another: Posts from people who don't read what the OP has written. |
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10 Sep 18 - 06:55 AM (#3949410) Subject: RE: Tech: Distinguishing black boxes & concertinas From: Leslie Butler Thanks for all positive suggestions. I confess, given how expensive, pinchable and losable concertinas are, I thought there'd be a standard marking procedure, as with bicycles. But it's nice to know the folky world is immune to mishap. |
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10 Sep 18 - 07:01 AM (#3949411) Subject: RE: Tech: Distinguishing black boxes & concertinas From: treewind To identify in case of theft, the best recommendation I've seen is to put name and contact details (email, house+postcode, phone) on the inside of the reed pan with a ballpoint pen, writing directly on the wood and deliberately pressing hard so it can't be erased (it's too easy to unstick and pull off a paper label) |
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10 Sep 18 - 09:46 AM (#3949437) Subject: RE: Tech: Distinguishing black boxes & concertinas From: Steve Gardham I'm still confused as to whether this is a security or identity query! Perhaps both. |
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11 Sep 18 - 05:27 AM (#3949606) Subject: RE: Tech: Distinguishing black boxes & concertinas From: Leslie Butler Security and identity go together. If your anonymous-looking black concertina is stolen or mislaid, how do you describe it or identify it in a way that will get assistance from the police, or whoever? It's nigh impossible to permanently mark box or instrument without causing unsightly damage, so I'm amazed there's not more concern about this. 've opted for my name on the reed pan, btw. |
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11 Sep 18 - 05:46 AM (#3949611) Subject: RE: Tech: Distinguishing black boxes & concertinas From: Jack Campin I have one instrument marked with a serial number by the maker in a place he says he doesn't expect any owner to find. I hope he can tell the police how to find it. |
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11 Sep 18 - 10:20 AM (#3949665) Subject: RE: Tech: Distinguishing black boxes & concertinas From: Steve Gardham All the concertinas of any worth that I have had have the serial number marked on the reed pan. Do they not do that with modern concertinas? I like the idea of name on the reed pan or somewhere inside as it is adding to the history of the instrument. Some of the concertinas I've had have had this and it helps to find out the background to previous owners if you're interested in that sort of thing. |
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12 Sep 18 - 08:41 AM (#3949874) Subject: RE: Tech: Distinguishing black boxes & concertinas From: GUEST,OldNicKilby Do NOT put it in a Cloakroom, keep hold at all times. Losing a Concertina is like losing Virginity. It only happens once |