<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "> <div>I would not assume that this year's Pianotech Live session will be typical of future ones. I wouldn't even assume that the Pianotech Live name will stick.</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>The pianotech meeting at the convention has been a hit and miss session over the years, and I thought it might be appropriate to try to evolve it a bit. One idea I have heard would be to have lunch together (social) and then extend the session into third period and deal with tech issues.</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>The institute is planned out months and months ahead of time. I thought it might be cool to have a session into which last minute items might find a place. The chance to have Mr. Stopper came about at the last minute, didn't cost us anything, and dealt with tech stuff that had been on the list. I thought the Pianotech Live was a good first effort, especially when the soundboard animations starting working...</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>A subject that came up even later on the list was the little discussion about string coupling. I would have loved to take that discussion into a class period at the convention. All we would need would be a piano and some interested techs. This is the idea for Pianotech Live -- current topical stuff that people care about. I certainly am not trying to do away with the social stuff; I like the idea of wearing some identifying something so we can be running into pianotech people all week long.</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>The board apparently is making me chair of the electronic communications committee in the coming year, so I will attempt to keep the Pianotech Live session going; I suspect it will be different every year.</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>Suggestions welcomed. Even at the last minute.</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>Kent</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><br><div><div>On Jun 26, 2007, at 8:12 PM, J. Stanley Ryberg wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; "><div><strong><font face="comic sans ms" color="#c00000">List,</font></strong></div><div><strong><font face="Comic Sans MS" color="#c00000"></font></strong> </div><div><strong><font face="Comic Sans MS" color="#c00000">I remember this dust-up from approximately a year and a half ago (I haven't checked the archives to date it precisely)...and the exchange below is precisely why I felt that the List meeting had been hijacked. It was predictable that this would be the outcome. May I now be on record as saying that next year (and farther into the future, as well) I sincerely hope that we can get back to having a chance to MEET with fellow Listers without the infomercial?</font></strong></div><div><strong><font face="Comic Sans MS" color="#c00000"></font></strong> </div><div><strong><font face="Comic Sans MS" color="#c00000">Not being sure whose idea it was to go this route, I can't direct my displeasure privately. Am I the only one disappointed?</font></strong></div><div><strong><font face="Comic Sans MS" color="#c00000"></font></strong> </div><div><strong><font face="Comic Sans MS" color="#c00000">Stan Ryberg</font></strong></div><div><strong><font face="Comic Sans MS" color="#c00000">Barrington IL</font></strong></div></span></blockquote></div><br></body></html>