This is the first time I've looked at the ptg blog! It's awesome. I especially like the piano shredding video (although its bound to get some shocked cries of dismay from some folks: "how could you do that to a piano!! You could have donated it to a church or a school!"). It's great to see convention pictures so soon after the event! On Sat, Jul 25, 2009 at 5:22 AM, Ron Berry <berrypiano at gmail.com> wrote: > Look at www.ptg.org/blog/ > I have some pictures of the Steingraeber and Scott Jones stuff. Also David > stanwood had an interesting invention. The post are called Invention at the > convention and may have scrolled off a page or two buy now. > > > > > On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 11:36 AM, Ron Koval <drwoodwind at hotmail.com>wrote: > >> I must have reached some kind of new threshold at the conference in >> Grand Rapids; I looked around at all the new tools and didn't feel like I >> needed to buy one.... Strange. >> >> A couple of new things did catch my eye - There was more there, but these >> two were memorable for me: >> >> From Scott Jones, the inventer of the pitch lock clips, the TouchRail for >> lightening heavy actions. Essentially a new custom rail to replace the key >> upstop rail. A small spring for each key can be used to individually adjust >> the touch. I bought an octave section to be used in for demonstration. >> http://pitchlock.com/pages/primary_pages/touchrail.html >> I hope to be trying this out soon! >> >> From Steven James, the grand piano muffler. This one seems to work really >> well! Simple installation requires pulling the dampers out and installing >> onto the damper rail. On/off requires sliding three little levers, one for >> each section. >> http://www.grandpianomuffler.com/Site/Grand_Piano_Muffler.html >> >> What did you see in Grand Rapids that caught your eye? >> >> Ron Koval >> chicagoland >> >> ------------------------------ >> Windows Live™ Hotmail®: Celebrate the moment with your favorite sports >> pics. Check it out.<http://www.windowslive.com/Online/Hotmail/Campaign/QuickAdd?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_QA_HM_sports_photos_072009&cat=sports> >> > > > > -- > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > Ronald Berry Piano Service > Indianapolis, IN > 317-255-8213 > ron at berrypiano.com > http://www.berrypiano.com > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > Ask me about Healthy Chocolate! > http://www.berrygoodchocolate.com > > Public Key > http://www.berrypiano.com/key/Ron_Berry.txt > -- Ryan Sowers, RPT Puget Sound Chapter Olympia, WA www.pianova.net -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech.php/attachments/20090725/fcd3b4c2/attachment.htm>
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