Convention

[Farrell]

I may be dense, but I am having quite a difficult time understanding this auxillary policy - and I will be in Chicago with my wife and son.

I am a member of PTG - I will pay the member registration fee and be able to attend educational classes at the conference (I understand that much).

My wife is not a member of piano anything, but she is a very good and enthusiastic pianist. I'm sure there would be one or two classes she would enjoy attending while hanging out at the hotel with me for a week. Is there some opportunity for her to attend a class or two short of registering as a non-member and paying the full non-member registration fee? I'm also sure that she (and my 12-year-old son-Jr. pianist)) would enjoy touring the vendors exhibit area once or twice. Is there some way they could walk through there with me? Is there some level of registration ($$) they would need to do to make this happen?

Thanks.

Terry Farrell
  
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Carol R. Beigel" <crbrpt@bellatlantic.net>
To: <pianotech@ptg.org>
Sent: Wednesday, March 27, 2002 8:30 AM
Subject: Re: Convention


> 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
> 
>