5 June 2015

Elections
The following were elected at the May meeting to begin serving immediately as Chapter officers
President Joe Wisner
Vice President Gary Telleen
Secretary David Norman
Treasurer Marty Hess
Newsletter Editor Roy Howard (with assistance from Kent Willis)

Next Meeting August 13

No June or July chapter meeting. See you in Denver. The August meeting will be held at the Service Center of USD259

Annual Convention

Alan Crane will be the Alternate Delegate to the National Convention with Joe Wisner as Delegate.

Joe requested that all members read the supplemental insert for Constitutional and Bylaw changes included in the May Journal and email him any comments or concerns in order to assist him as this year's chapter delegate.

Roy Howard reported on the Ecuador project. He will be going there this summer for a 4 week conference involving a multi-national gathering of Luthiers, Piano Technicians, and Wind Instrument Repair Technicians in an series of workshops designed to train trainers and mentors who teach musical instrument repair. He is also working to establish an accreditation process for courses and conferences worldwide, and a multilingual glossary of technical terms and processes.

Technical

Refreshments were served by Marty with a technical following regarding how to recognize and adjust aftertouch in grand piano actions.

You should have received in the mail a 228 book from PTG - "2015 Membership Directory and Guide to Resources in Piano Technology". If you can't find it there, you don't need it (or at least let them know, so they include next year).

Piano Technicians Journal Media on YouTube

For PTG member resources go to www.my.ptg.org

PTG Annual Convention and Technical Institute • July 15th - 18th • (913) 432-9975 • ptg@ptg.org

How strong are you?
The average medium sized piano has about 230 strings, each string having about 165 pounds of tension, with the combined pull of all strings equaling approximately eighteen tons.

Definition of a piano tuner:
A person employed to come into the home, rearrange the furniture, and annoy the cat. The tuner's chief purpose is to ascertain the breaking point of the piano's strings. (If you pay, he will leave).

What time of day did you tune it?
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