On Jul 15, 2008, at 11:37 AM, Alan McCoy wrote: > Unfortunately, I don't have the energy at > this moment, nor requisite skills, to be the driving force behind the > project. The more I think about this, the more I believe it is a project PTG should spend a little money on (maybe just adding it to Ron Berry's duties). It seems to me that this has the potential to be a great service to the membership, and a magnet for attention to PTG itself. The initial idea of creating a way of organizing material from the lists' archives is already a very worthwhile project. But it could morph into much more, possibly becoming a real Pianopedia. For instance, it could serve as place for someone like BIll Shull to post materials from his Steinway history project, and a way for people to contribute information to that cause. It could be a place for posting the results of research into the thousands of piano patents. It could be a basic central source of temperament and tuning theory material. I believe our organization has a lot of latent talent and energy among its disparate and isolated members, and that a project like this would harness some of that energy and serve as a focal point. All that is needed is a good foundation, some kind of skeleton to build on. A lot of us have archived personal collections of material from the lists. I'm sure many would be happy to post these collections in appropriate categories as a first starting point. And then we could see where it led. This is aimed directly at the board members who are subscribed to the list, in hopes that they might consider taking the initiative. Regards, Fred Sturm University of New Mexico fssturm at unm.edu
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