February 6, 2001
The twice-weekly Pianotech live chats have been a great success over the
past few years, with active participants from many parts of the
globe. Thanks to all of you who join in with us and we hope to see more
people in the future, even if it's just to say hello some day! Remember,
there is now a well-attended International Sunday chat as well! Sunday
morning for those in North America and Sunday Evening for those close to
Greenwich Mean Time.
The #pianotech channel is carried on the "Starlink-IRC"
network. Starlink-IRC supports the #pianotech channel with a
browser-based Java chat as well as WEB-TV.
To those who do not wish to learn (or load) another program or have had
problems connecting with us in the past, connecting to the live chat is
also simple if your browser supports "Java" as most modern browsers do. Go
to: http://houston.tx.us.starlink-irc.org/ Follow the simple directions
and join #pianotech.
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 or personal discussions 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 in the various directories.
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
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-IRC including how to connect with your
browser or through WEB-TV please go to: http://www.starlink-IRC.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 as well as
Sundays (or ANY time!) in #pianotech on Starlink-IRC.
John Musselwhite
(RevJohn/RevRinger on IRC)
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