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Dear Ron,
thank you very much. We appreciate a lot your attention.
We hope to have here many people from USA and we will do our best for give a
nice and interesting period.
Friendly regards to all.
Best regards
Technical committee president
Sergio Brunello
Treviso, Italy
serbrunello@iol.it
information Europiano2000@ciresafiemme.it
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Da: owner-pianotech@ptg.org [mailto:owner-pianotech@ptg.org]Per conto di
Ron Berry
Inviato: luned́ 17 aprile 2000 6.34
A: pianotech@ptg.org
Oggetto: Re: Europiano Congress 2000
Dear Sergio:
I will add links to the website on a couple of places on the Piano
Page. I have them on the coming events page and right on the
opening page for timely events.
The conference looks wonderful.
Buona fortuna,
Ron
From: "Sergio Brunello" <serbrunello@iol.it>
To: <pianotech@ptg.org>
Subject: Europiano Congress 2000
Date sent: Wed, 29 Mar 2000 23:51:47 +0200
Send reply to: pianotech@ptg.org
> Dear list,
>
> I wish to communicate the update of the Europiano Congress web page.
Inside
> you will find all the information.
>
> See : www.ciresafiemme.it (link Europiano)
>
> The technical classes are now definitive.
>
> I think we have something really interesting like:
> first show of a research over grand and upright action parts sequence
> movements shooting with an high velocity video camera. The results are
> really amazing. The research was done from the German piano maker master
Mr.
> Enzenauer and Mr. Hahn teacher by the Ludwigsburg piano maker school.
>
> Eng. Paolo Fazioli will held class over the soundboard construction
> philosophies.
>
> A class over a research regarding the piano sound generation process
> physical characteristic and other aspects held form the University of
Padova
> Centro di sonologia computazionale.
>
> Mr. Hayashida from Yamaha piano division will held a class over action
> construction and function with a large view over other aspect like strings
> termination, play technics and touch related to piano sound etc..
>
> Steinway & Sons Hamburg will reports over the Steinway patent.
>
> Two Italian colleague will held two practical classes. Mr. Salvatore
> Malcangi will show the best way to do a conservative repair of damaged
> keyboard. Mr. Giovanni Bettin will show a method for optimize the
soundboard
> downbearing and consequential hammer strike point setting.
>
> Mr. Dietrich Dotzek will held an useful class over Performance
improvements
> of old grand piano actions.
>
> In the program there are Historical class too.
>
> The concerts program is of top class.
>
> You are all welcome, it should be a pleasure for us to have here some
> American colleagues.
>
>
> Best regards
> Technical committee president
> Sergio Brunello
> Treviso, Italy
> serbrunello@iol.it
> infomation
> Europiano2000@ciresafiemme.it
>
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> P.S.
>
> Even if some time is past I wish to public thank Mr. Delwin Fandrich for
> the nice words he wrote in reply to my first announce of the Europiano
> congress in date 31/01/2000.
> Del the people here are still speaking about the fantastic classes you
give
> . You left a deep sign in our professional knowledge, thank you again from
> all us.
>
> Ciao
>
>
> Del wrote:
>
> The Conference Sergio speaks of is being held in the Val de Femme in the
> Italian Alps. If there is any way you can attend this conference, I would
> encourage you to do so. It will be a most memorable experience.
> As some of you know, I was invited to speak at the Italian AIARP
Conference
> in Osimo (a beautiful old city near the central Italian Adriatic coast)
this
> past September. My wife, Barbara, and I have many fond memories of that
> Conference and of the more than one hundred wonderful technicians who
> attended the Conference. The Conference itself lasted three and a half
days
> of straight lecture which, by itself, says something for the stamina of
the
> Italian piano technician!
>
> After the Conference we were treated to a whirlwind tour of Northern Italy
> by Sergio Brunello, courtesy of the AIARP. We visited the incredible
> Frasassi Caves in the Marche Province, the Schulze-Pollmann piano factory,
> the Fazioli piano factory, the Ciresa soundboard factory in the
magnificent
> Val di Fiemme and, of course, Venice. All of this was carefully monitored
by
> frequent phone calls from Luciano del Rio, the AIARP president. (I think
all
> Italians are issued a cell phone at birth.) Luciano constantly checked on
> our progress and made sure we were in good hands. We were. Sergio and his
> wife, Paula, were wonderful hosts and Sergio proved to be an excellent
tour
> guide.
>
> These people were wonderful. We were treated like royalty throughout the
> entire trip. The conference was run smoothly and competently which says a
> lot for the organizational skills of Luciano del Rio. My class notes were
> Emailed to Sergio steadily through the summer. With the help of his crew,
he
> translated them all into Italian. Translation of the actual classes was
done
> by Valerio Sabatini of Rome. Valerio and I met for the first time the day
> before the lectures began. He had no idea of how I was going to present
the
> lectures or my manner of speech. He is not a professional translator, he
is
> a piano technician. However, from the feedback I got from several other
> technicians in the audience who also spoke both Italian and English, he
did
> an excellent job.
>
> We had never been to Italy prior to this trip. Of course, we expected to
see
> a beautiful country, and we did. We also expected to find great food, and,
> again, we did. (How do those Italians manage to stay so slim?) The real
> beauty of Italy, however, is to be found in the hearts of its people.
> Without exception the people we met in Italy were warm and gracious and it
> is they, even more than the beauty of the country, the art or the
> architecture, that we will long cherish.
>
> All of this is to say that if you get a chance to make this trip, by all
> means do so. Don't worry if you don't speak Italian. You will get by just
> fine. If words fail you can always talk with your hands-they will think
you
> are a native Italian! Besides, I understand there will be translators for
> the actual classes.
>
> The location of this Conference is in the Val de Fiemme which contains one
> of the oldest managed forests in the world today. It was set aside for
> continuous, sustainable yield forestry practices in the year 1111 and is
now
> only one of two European forests to earn awards for its forest management.
> This valley is incredibly beautiful and peaceful and would be worth the
trip
> even without the Europiano Conference. That will just be frosting on the
> cake.
>
>
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