Pianotech Live Chat

[John Musselwhite]

(Message updated February 29, 2000)

Hello everyone!

This is your weekly reminder of our regular Tuesday and Thursday night live 
chat on Starlink.  (**Please note: "Starlink" and "Starlink-IRC are 
separate networks**). There is generally someone in the  #pianotech Channel 
from 8:30 PM to 1:30 AM (or so) Eastern Standard time.

This is an excellent opportunity to interact with other technicians 
worldwide in real time. On either of the two nights you may run into many 
people whom you may know from these lists and from conventions. Discussions 
range from shop talk about tools and techniques to piano design and of 
course, using the Internet. Additional public and private "rooms" can be 
set up instantly for mini-technicals if required without having to leave 
the #pianotech channel.

The #pianotech "ftp" site, with MIDI files, pictures and other materials 
used in current and previous discussions can be found at: 
http://www.musselwhite.com/pub

For those with WWW access, complete information about the IRC channel can 
be found on the excellent "Official #Pianotech WWW Page" at:

http://www.clandjop.com/~dkvander/ircpiano.html

The IRC Piano page has links to where you can download IRC clients for 
Windows and the Mac if you do not currently have a program that allows you 
to connect to us on IRC. Information for AOL users and the addresses of IRC 
"servers" that carry #pianotech are listed. Regular participants can have 
their information on the page by sending the info to David at 
mailto:dkvander@clandjop.com
Many thanks to Kathleen and David Vanderhoofven for developing and hosting 
the page.

For detailed information on Starlink including a list of servers point your 
WWW browser to: http://www.starlink.org/

If anyone has any questions, please EMail myself or David unless you feel 
the list participants might be interested. Live chat is a great way to 
exchange ideas or just spend some time in friendly conversation with 
like-minded people.

We're hoping to see some of you Tuesday and/or Thursday evenings (or ANY 
night!)  in  #pianotech on Starlink.