St. Louis 1 Day

[J Patrick Draine]

>Alan Vincent and Paul Revenko-Jones were two excellent instructors at our
>seminar. As I indicated earlier,  we only had 14 people attend. Those 14,
>however, all learned a great deal about touch weight, action relationsship,s
>termination points, and how to take a piano appart, and put it back together
>again.
>
>It was disappointing to have only 14 people there. We had hoped for about 25.
>I want to get on a little soap box here, so if some of you are offended, I
>appologize. But if what I have to say encourages the rest of you to do
>something about it, then I feel I did the right thing.
>
>15 years ago when I was an RVP, and we were managed by Fromm, my name somehow
>got on the mailing list for the Gasoline Dealer's Association, one of the
>other organizations Fromm managed. One day I got in the mail a notice on how
>to take care of underground tank leakage. (I am sure all of you are dying to
>get to that seminar, right :) ). Anyway, the seminar was in Chicago, for one
>day. No pre-seminar coffee, no lunch, no breaks. Nothing but listening to some
>guy talk about how to fix those pesky leaks. The registration fee to attend
>that one day seminar was $750.00.
>
Kudos for your efforts in organizing the seminar, and your points about the
unrecognized value of PTG seminars.
Patrick Draine
Billerica, MA