Please mark your calendar for an upcoming one day technical seminar in St. Louis. Featuring: Alan Vincent, RPT Geneva Internatioinal - Petroff Pianos Action Touch Weight Basics Grand Piano Tear Down Plate and Action Relationships AND Paul Revenko-Jones, RPT Chicago Chapter Termination Points Saturday, November 14, 1998 Sheraton Westport Lakeside Chalet Schedule: 8:00 am - 9:00 am Registration and Continental Breakfast 9:00 am - 10:30 am Action Touch Weight Basics 10:45 am - 12:15 pm Plate and Action Relationships 12:15 pm to 1:30 pm Lunch 1:30 pm - 3:00 pm Termination Points 3:15 pm - 4:45 pm Grand Piano Tear Down Registration Fees: St. Louis Chapter Members $25.00 Other PTG Members $30.00 Non PTG Members $60.00 (Non Members will get a $30.00 credit towards filling out a PTG application) Registration Fee includes Continental Breakfast and Lunch Deadline for Registration is November 10, 1998 For Questions Call: WIllem Blees, RPT, Seminar Chairman, 314-962-5774 *************************************************************************** Folks, I am looking forward to this seminar. Alan Vincent and Paul Revenko-Jones are leaders in our field, and the information will be worth much more than the small fee for registration. In fact, I am surprised at how low the fee is! I regularly get mailings from business consultants and computer training organizations who travel around teaching seminars, and the average cost is anywhere from $100.00 to $195.00 for the classes. Folks, this is only $30.00 plus travel. You can't beat that! Alan Vincent is the Head Technician for Geneva International and Petroff Pianos in the US. If you have any questions about Petroff Pianos, I am sure he would be glad to talk with you if time permits. Paul Revenko-Jones, RPT, is a rebuilder in Chicago, and he has put out a great video tape about what is involved in rebuilding a piano. This video will be able to explain to your customers what is involved in a complete rebuilding of a piano, and you can use this video as a tool to sell more rebuild jobs. The video is available from Brookside Press (publishers of The Piano Book, by Larry Fine). The low fee being charged is much lower than you could expect to pay for technical training in any other line of work. I am sure that the St. Louis Chapter is subsidizing this seminar by a goodly amount of money. The registration fee will cost you about half a tuning for a full day of training. Even if you have to drive hard all day Friday, stay overnight in a motel, attend the all day seminar, stay overnight in a motel again, and drive hard all day Sunday to get back home, I still feel that you will learn enough at this training to make it worth your while for all of the time off work, the cost of travel and motels and meals and the cost of the seminar. Where else can you meet top technicians who are willing to teach you things that you probably won't learn on your own. And even if you already know everything (ha!), it is still good to get out and meet other technicians, form friendships and relationships, and keep in touch with what is going on in other areas. The low cost of this training does not reflect upon the value that is offered at this seminar. Who can place a value on your knowledge? The more training you recieve, the better service you will be able to offer, the more money you will be able to charge your customers (and still sleep at night knowing that you are not cheating them). You can advertise that you actively participate in continuing education, and your customers will appreciate the fact that you are keeping up with all of the technical advances. Looking forward to seeing you all there! Sincerely, David Vanderhoofven, RPT Joplin, Missouri Kansas City Chapter PTG
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