Europiano Congress 2000

[Ron Berry]

Dear Sergio:

I will add links to the website on a couple of places on the Piano 
Page.  I have them on the coming events page and right on the 
opening page for timely events.

  The conference looks wonderful.  

Buona fortuna,

Ron




From:           	"Sergio Brunello" <serbrunello@iol.it>
To:             	<pianotech@ptg.org>
Subject:        	Europiano Congress 2000
Date sent:      	Wed, 29 Mar 2000 23:51:47 +0200
Send reply to:  	pianotech@ptg.org

> Dear list,
> 
> I wish to communicate the update of the Europiano Congress web page. Inside
> you will find all the information.
> 
> See : www.ciresafiemme.it  (link Europiano)
> 
> The technical classes are now definitive.
> 
> I think we have something really interesting like:
> first show of a research over  grand and upright action parts sequence
> movements shooting with an high velocity video camera. The results are
> really amazing. The research was done from the German piano maker master Mr.
> Enzenauer and Mr. Hahn teacher by the Ludwigsburg piano maker school.
> 
> Eng. Paolo Fazioli will held class over the soundboard construction
> philosophies.
> 
> A class over a research regarding  the piano sound generation process
> physical characteristic and other aspects held form the University of Padova
> Centro di sonologia computazionale.
> 
> Mr. Hayashida from Yamaha piano division will held a class over action
> construction and function with a large view over other aspect like strings
> termination, play technics and touch related to piano sound etc..
> 
> Steinway & Sons Hamburg will reports over the Steinway  patent.
> 
> Two Italian colleague will held two practical classes. Mr. Salvatore
> Malcangi will show the best way to do a conservative repair of damaged
> keyboard. Mr. Giovanni Bettin will show a method for optimize the soundboard
> downbearing and consequential hammer strike point setting.
> 
> Mr. Dietrich Dotzek will held an useful class over Performance improvements
> of old grand piano actions.
> 
> In the program there are Historical class too.
> 
> The concerts program is of top class.
> 
> You are all welcome, it should be a pleasure for us to have here some
> American colleagues.
> 
> 
>            Best regards
> Technical committee president
>         Sergio Brunello
>          Treviso, Italy
>      serbrunello@iol.it
> infomation
>  Europiano2000@ciresafiemme.it
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> P.S.
> 
> Even if some time is past I wish to public thank  Mr. Delwin Fandrich for
> the nice words he wrote in reply to my first announce of the Europiano
> congress in date 31/01/2000.
> Del the people here are still speaking about the fantastic classes you give
> . You left a deep sign in our professional knowledge, thank you again from
> all us.
> 
> Ciao
> 
> 
> Del wrote:
> 
>  The Conference Sergio speaks of is being held in the Val de Femme in the
> Italian Alps. If there is any way you can attend this conference, I would
> encourage you to do so. It will be a most memorable experience.
> As some of you know, I was invited to speak at the Italian AIARP Conference
> in Osimo (a beautiful old city near the central Italian Adriatic coast) this
> past September. My wife, Barbara, and I have many fond memories of that
> Conference and of the more than one hundred wonderful technicians who
> attended the Conference. The Conference itself lasted three and a half days
> of straight lecture which, by itself, says something for the stamina of the
> Italian piano technician!
> 
> After the Conference we were treated to a whirlwind tour of Northern Italy
> by Sergio Brunello, courtesy of the AIARP. We visited the incredible
> Frasassi Caves in the Marche Province, the Schulze-Pollmann piano factory,
> the Fazioli piano factory, the Ciresa soundboard factory in the magnificent
> Val di Fiemme and, of course, Venice. All of this was carefully monitored by
> frequent phone calls from Luciano del Rio, the AIARP president. (I think all
> Italians are issued a cell phone at birth…) Luciano constantly checked on
> our progress and made sure we were in good hands. We were. Sergio and his
> wife, Paula, were wonderful hosts and Sergio proved to be an excellent tour
> guide.
> 
> These people were wonderful. We were treated like royalty throughout the
> entire trip. The conference was run smoothly and competently which says a
> lot for the organizational skills of Luciano del Rio. My class notes were
> Emailed to Sergio steadily through the summer. With the help of his crew, he
> translated them all into Italian. Translation of the actual classes was done
> by Valerio Sabatini of Rome. Valerio and I met for the first time the day
> before the lectures began. He had no idea of how I was going to present the
> lectures or my manner of speech. He is not a professional translator, he is
> a piano technician. However, from the feedback I got from several other
> technicians in the audience who also spoke both Italian and English, he did
> an excellent job.
> 
> We had never been to Italy prior to this trip. Of course, we expected to see
> a beautiful country, and we did. We also expected to find great food, and,
> again, we did. (How do those Italians manage to stay so slim?) The real
> beauty of Italy, however, is to be found in the hearts of its people.
> Without exception the people we met in Italy were warm and gracious and it
> is they, even more than the beauty of the country, the art or the
> architecture, that we will long cherish.
> 
> All of this is to say that if you get a chance to make this trip, by all
> means do so. Don’t worry if you don’t speak Italian. You will get by just
> fine. If words fail you can always talk with your hands—they will think you
> are a native Italian! Besides, I understand there will be translators for
> the actual classes.
> 
> The location of this Conference is in the Val de Fiemme which contains one
> of the oldest managed forests in the world today. It was set aside for
> continuous, sustainable yield forestry practices in the year 1111 and is now
> only one of two European forests to earn awards for its forest management.
> This valley is incredibly beautiful and peaceful and would be worth the trip
> even without the Europiano Conference. That will just be frosting on the
> cake.
> 
> 


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