Wim's Letter& PTG's Future

[S. Brady]

On Mon, 13 Nov 1995 FREDIEBOY@aol.com wrote:

> became very strong. More and more power was taken from the general membership
> and given to the PTG National Office. Anger was developed at the 1994
> Convention when Jim Burton hired a group called Wedgewood to run the national

> promise that Wedgewood would not be rehired for the 1995 convention in
> Hollywood, Florida. When the news came out that Burton had lied to us about
> rehiring Wedgewood the north east exploded. Letters went out, chapter
> newsletters went out some as large as 16 pages. Meetings between chapters and
> states were set up. A boycott of the 1995 convention was off and running, As

> in PTG as independent Businessmen. So in 1997 a group of technicians made up
> of only PTG members struck out on their own. Within six months MPT was
> established in thirty eight states. Included in their membership were three

      Really? Fred, your prescient abilities are astonishing. But why
did you cut it off at 1997? What happened in 1998? Good thing you're a
piano tuner instead of a historian!



Steve Brady, RPT        "The most expert and rapid tuners are...
University of Washington       possessed of a highly excitable,
sbrady@u.washington.edu        nervous, and emotional temperament,
                         verging on the border of insanity at times."
                              -Daniel Spillane, The Tuner's Guide