Friends, I was quite disappointed when I realized I had missed the Thursday morning pianotech list gathering. I like being able to match names to faces in my mind. I hope the gathering occurs next year in Washington, DC, and hopefully I will have more foresight than I did this year. How does one go about choosing classes when there are up to fourteen choices every period?! I try to include those subjects which seem infrequently addressed or those that will stretch me. This led me to Ed Foote's historical temperaments class (wow!), Isaac Sadigursky's pedal lyres class, Dan Levitan's ideas on muting, and Roger Jolly's steam voicing. Other classes, while not as novel to me, were also helpful. And, of course, I had to take a little time to see the home office and mini-museum. My humble thanks to you who introduced yourselves to me and to those who were amicable when I introduced myself to you. Just as the interpersonal dimensions are important in our business, so they are at the convention, where those of us who aren't "old-timers" can feel lost at sea and even a little lonely. The challenge now is to apply what we learned before the knowledge gets lost in the recesses of the mind. Regards, Clyde Hollinger, RPT Lititz, PA
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