Live Chat Reminder

[John Musselwhite]

Hello Everyone:

This is a reminder of the Pianotech Inter-Relay Chat (IRC) held twice 
a week live on the Internet. Come have a virtual coffee and talk shop 
or just chat for a while.  Information on how to join us can be found below.

Chat times are Tuesday and Thursday evenings from about 8pm-1am 
Eastern Standard/Daylight Time for North America and Greenwich Mean 
Time (which is Tuesday mornings in North America) for those in Europe 
and points East.

There is an International Sunday chat as well, taking place Sunday 
mornings for those in North America and Sunday Evening for those 
closer to Greenwich.

The #pianotech channel is carried on the family-oriented and 
comparatively safe "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://www.starlink-irc.org/ and select one of 
the Java Chat servers. Click on "No Channel", Put a nickname into the 
appropriate box (don't put anything in the others) on the screen that 
comes up,  and click on Connect. Type:   /join #pianotech  into the 
box, press <ENTER> and you should be in.

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 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/piano/

Complete information about the IRC channel can be found on the 
"Official #Pianotech WWW Page" at: http://www.musselwhite.com/ircpiano.html

Many thanks to Kathleen and David Vanderhoofven for developing 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  me 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