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