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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV>
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black"><B>From:</B>
<A title=draine@attbi.com href="mailto:draine@attbi.com">J Patrick =
Draine</A>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A =
title=pianotech@ptg.org
href="mailto:pianotech@ptg.org">pianotech@ptg.org</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Cc:</B> <A title=draine@attbi.com =
href="mailto:draine@attbi.com">J Patrick Draine</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> July 19, 2002 10:11 =
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: "PTG Convention is =
focused
on teaching...."</DIV>
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<DIV>On Friday, July 19, 2002, at 11:27 AM, Delwin D Fandrich
wrote:<BR><big snip><BR><BR><?color><?param 0000,0000,8080>We =
are trying
to structure our once-a-year convention to make up for the relative =
lack of
viable school facilities around the =
country.<BR><BR><?/color><?color><?param 04CB,04CB,04CB>Well, the =
schools
certainly aren't as inexpensive as PTG's offerings, but they are =
there,
they're high quality, and there are openings.<BR><BR>Patrick Draine =
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<DIV><FONT color=#000080>Oh, I agree. I was impressed by those who =
exhibited at
our most recent convention. But over three decades of observation have =
convinced
me there are always going to be a certain percentage of us who are not =
going to
avail ourselves of their services. And we, as an organization, are going =
to
continue to push for a variety of classes at our conventions to cater to =
that
percentage.</FONT></DIV>
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