Happy New Year to all our members and friends!

The general meeting for this month will be held on Tuesday, January 8, 2019. The meeting will start one-half hour earlier than usual, at 6:30 p.m. at Frank and Camille's showroom:

Frank and Camille's Keyboard Center
482 Walt Whitman Road (Route 110)
Melville, New York 11747
(631) 385-0606

Please note: Frank and Camille's closes at 8 p.m. The meeting must begin promptly.

This month's technical class will be a video from the Home Office, "A Glimpse into Montal's Paris." This presentation celebrates the life and work of Claude Montal (1800-1865), a self-taught piano tuner and technician, who became a piano builder, an inventor, and author of the standard text of piano technology for the 19th century, The Art of Tuning. These accomplishments would be monumental for anyone, but are even more remarkable for an individual of humble origins and blind since childhood in the early 19th century.

*The video running time is 1 1/2 hours, and thus the reason for the early starting time.

The Executive Committee can meet for dinner before the meeting at a local restaurant if there is interest. Contact Michael Slavin at (516) 781-8888, or send an email to slavinpiano@aol.com to make arrangements.

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The December meeting was our annual Holiday Party held on Tuesday evening, December 4, 2018 at Tesoro Ristorante in Westbury. Consequently, there are no minutes this month.

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