Convention

[Carol R. Beigel]

The Convention web site is on www.ptg.org   I believe it said that family
members could attend classes at the member rate.  This is certainly a much
better deal than the Mid Atlantic Conference in Pennsylvania next week.   I
would have had to pay an extra $100 on top of the member price for my
daughter to attend some classes - the non PTG member technician rate!!!

I really think family members should get a break.  Often, a spouse is part
of running the piano service business.  And there comes a time when your
kids grow up enough to get interested.  I think a member benefit of PTG
should be a discount rate for your family to attend classes - at least until
they decided they want to become members in their own right.

In my mind, their is a HUGE difference between family members of PTG and
those technicians who steadfastly refuse to join the organization and earn a
living tuning pianos.  In my kid's case, she spent years folding and
stamping PTG newsletters, helping with PTG publicity events, etc.  and now,
at least in PA, the PTG wants to charge her an unfair price to attend her
first seminar.  That is certainly no way "to grow your own"!!!

Carol Beigel

>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
> Hi list,
>  I am thinking of taking my wife to the national >in Chicago.If she wanted
to
>attend a class or two with me,would she have to >pay non-member fees?,what
is
i>ncluded in an auxillary pass.
>Thanks,
>Hazen Bannister