Cuba booth

[Benjamin Treuhaft]

There will be a booth at the Dearborn Convention this July 17 manned by
Associate Member Tom Lloyd and renegade tuner Benjamin Treuhaft where
attendees can learn about Send a Piana to Havana.  We  have photos,
videos and music, and would like to offer Cuban dulces, or snacks
(would samples of the rum and cigars be permissible?).     Seven pianos
have been distributed to Cuban schools and musicians in what so far has
been a wildly successful project to inject U.S. pianos, supplies and
technology into Cuba in spite of the political problems between our
government and theirs.   The project venue, a former country club in
Western Havana, contains 15 more project pianos, most of which need a
bit of work.  Also there, almost a ton of parts donated by generous PTG
members last fall.  We will accept donations of parts or cash,
suggestions about the project,  or - most importantly - offers to come
down and help out.  There are many ways, both legal and not-so, to get
across that gulf.  Global Exchange (globalexch@igc.apc.org) would even
set up a tour if enough tuners were interested.
Benjamin Treuhaft
Berkeley, Calif.