The general meeting for this month will be held on the FIRST Tuesday evening of month, December 7, 2021 starting at 7 p.m. (for the benefit of all the members' busy Holiday schedules).

The technical presentation will be a special class by Yamaha Corporation of America. Noah Jolly, Yamaha's hybrid product tech specialist, will be the instructor, with additional contributions from Ryan Ellison and Kevin Suzuki. This team from the Technical Services Department will introduce us to the latest developments and digital-acoustic evolution of the traditional piano with which we are all familiar. We will learn about Yamaha's TransAcoustic, AvantGrand, SilentPiano, and Disklavier models, which we will increasingly encounter in the future.

For everyone's safety, we will be holding this meeting remotely via Zoom. To participate, make sure you have Zoom installed on your device: download Zoom

You will receive an invitation by e-mail early on the day of the meeting with a reminder shortly before the meeting.

Mike Slavin points out:
There is a very brief scene in the new Beatles documentary "Get Back," where a piano tuner is at work while the group is entering their new Apple recording studio. The same annoyances and difficulties that we encounter on an almost daily basis plague those even at the pinnacle of our profession....ongoing conversations and equipment being moved around when need absolute silence is needed.

Annual reminder: It is now winter, and you should try to remember to remove your glues from your car overnight during the cold season. Constant freeze-thaw cycles can reduce the bonding properties and effectiveness of most adhesives (especially carpenter's wood glues such as Tite-Bond, PVC-E, Roo Glue, etc.). And there is also the added inconvenience of trying to make a repair with a glue that is frozen solid or so thick that it will not flow. If you read Pianotek's recent online newsletter, they indicated that they will not sell or ship any glues during the winter for this very reason.