Saturday, April 26, 2008

Meeting Notice

Our next meeting will be at

Frederick Johnson Pianos Inc.
in
White River Junction.
Date: May 13
Time: 4:30
Phone: (802) 985-5406
Map
E-mail: vtptg (dot) now (at) gmail (dot) com

Dale Howe will do a tuning technical. We will go out to eat afterward. Hope to see you there!

Thursday, April 17, 2008

This Month's Meeting

Allan Day showing us some unique and interesting projects he is working on.





1790 Longman & Broderip square fortepiano






Allan demonstrating the way this thing works







We had a good-size turnout -- nine in all







Ed Hilbert explaining the effect of swelling and shrinking of wood over 2 plus centuries




Unfortunately, no pictures were taken of the Steinway action which Allan is working on. Thanks, Allan, for leading the discussion and showing us your one-of-a-kind instruments.

Tuesday, April 8, 2008

NEECSO

The New Hampshire Chapter of the Piano Technicians Guild proudly presents our finest offering ever:

NEECSO 2008

“ART, CRAFT, & INNOVATION”

April 24 to 27, 2008

Highlights include:
35 classes by 29 instructors
13 brand spankin’ new classes (that’s 37 %!)
Thrifty Thursday, with 5 one day classes by nationally known instructors – yours for only $50 more!
A 9 class series “Grand Action Restoration – Raising the Bar”
“Rib Crowned and Supported Soundboards – Towards A New Paradigm?”
Two days of classes on soundboard design and construction by Ron Nossaman and Terry Farrell
“Of Mics and Men (Women and Pianos) – The Art of Recording the Piano” presented by NYC studio piano technician veteran Barbara Pease Renner and 11 time Grammy winning recording engineer Jack Renner
Other instructors include: David Anderson, Steve Brady, Kent Webb, Wally Brooks, Don Manino, Andre & Christian Bolduc, David Stanwood, and many, many more!
Special seminar hotel rate of $99 per night at the Radisson Hotel.
A pdf. of our brochure, class descriptions, other highlights, and online registration are available on our website at www.ptg.org/neecso. Or contact:
Bill Ballard
NEECSO '08 Registrar
POB 84
Saxtons River, VT 05154
Air travelers can fly into the Manchester, N. H. airport and take the free Radisson limo service directly to the hotel.
This will be the only Region 1 Conference prior to the Annual in Anaheim!