This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment Hi Stan, Are you saying that there was less room for exhibitors or that = spaces were not used? Joe Goss RPT Mother Goose Tools imatunr@srvinet.com www.mothergoosetools.com ----- Original Message -----=20 From: J. Stanley Ryberg=20 To: pianotech=20 Sent: Wednesday, June 22, 2005 9:13 PM Subject: Kansas City (MO & KS) Fellow Listers (root cause for the list unidentified as yet...), The convention was as satisfying and as exhausting as usual...the only = negative (and a small one at that) was that the Exhibition Hall seemed a = bit less populous than usual...not by those attending, but those = exhibiting. The quality of the exhibits is not in question, simply that = there seemed to be fewer of them. Personal thanks to Laura Olsen and Jack Wyatt, Isaac Sadigursky, Mary = Cushing Smith, Paolo Faziolo and Rick Baldassin, Joe Garrett, Richard = Davenport, Roger Jolly, Steve Pearson and Joe Swenson, Ward Guthrie, and = finally David Carpenter, in the last class I was able to attend. = Informational, inspirational, rational...and occasionally crazy in the = ways that we understand so well...and VERY much appreciated! Needless = to say, there were a raft of classes that I was unable to attend because = they conflicted with the above...but that gives me a reason to keep = attending. Perhaps next time.... One of the main reasons for going to KC was to see the Home = Office...particularly the museum. Jack Wyatt (may he continue = forever...or at least longer than I do) asked for reactions, both = positive and negative, then asked if I would pose these to the List in = the hope of generating some discussion that would be helpful to the = evolution, as it were, of the museum. Jack asked first for the negative = reactions. I had two, but they are so related that they could be the = same thing. I would like to see a published Catalogue of the holdings = of the museum...I mean, I would readily PURCHASE a catalogue of the = museum! Related to this, the descriptive material (perhaps condensed = somewhat) could serve also as signage for the various items = (instruments, etc.) on display. The positive reactions were on the tip of my tongue...I came to see = three categories of items in the museum...1) the instruments = themselves, 2) action models, many of which are original or primarily = original from the manufacturers represented and 3) a collection of = historic tools. I was not disappointed. The museum space could always = be larger, but I was impressed with the amount of space dedicated to it = in a building which must accommodate a variety of functions while = maintaining the day-to-day operations of the PTG. And if the museum = display becomes a rotating one, with instruments and/or tool displays = changed from time to time, then I say there is one more good reason to = attend future conventions in KC! There! I've had my say...what say ye???? Hello to those Listers...Listees?...that I met for the first time face = to face, and to those I've known for a while...that's another HUGE = reason to attend. Nice to see actual faces and hear actual voices, = isn't it? Yet, I returned to the realization that I SAW Phil Bondi = once, but wasn't able to connect just then, and I somehow missed Alan = Barnard completely, but I DID meet Brian Lawson, who assured me that the = world was still out there (!), and....I'll stop now, without even = MENTIONING Dave Andersen.....! "And a good time was had by all!" Let's do it again!!!!! Stan Ryberg=20 Barrington IL=20 jstan40@sbcglobal.net ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/ff/80/1b/2e/attachment.htm ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment--
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