Live Chat Reminder

John Musselwhite john@musselwhite.com
Tue, 24 Sep 2002 09:33:49 -0600


August 6, 2002

Hello Everyone:

The twice-weekly Pianotech live chats have been a great success over the 
past few years, with active participants from many parts of the globe. 
Thanks to all of you who join in with us and if you don't we hope to see 
you in the future, even if it's just to say hello some day!

Chat times are Tuesday and Thursday evenings from about 8pm-1am Eastern 
Time and Greenwich Mean Time (Tuesday mornings in North America).
There is now an International Sunday chat as well, taking place Sunday 
mornings for those in North America and Sunday Evening for those closer to 
Greenwich.

The #pianotech channel is carried on the "Starlink-IRC" network. 
Starlink-IRC supports the #pianotech channel with a browser-based Java chat 
as well as WEB-TV.

To those who do not wish to learn (or load) another program or have had 
problems connecting with us in the past, connecting to the live chat is 
also simple if your browser supports "Java" as most modern browsers do. Go 
to: http://houston.tx.us.starlink-irc.org/ Follow the simple directions and 
join #pianotech.

This is an excellent opportunity to interact with other technicians 
worldwide in real time. On either of the two nights you may run into many 
people whom you may know from these lists and from conventions. Discussions 
range from shop talk about tools and techniques to piano design and of 
course, using the Internet. Additional public and private "rooms" can be 
set up instantly for mini-technicals if required without having to leave 
the #pianotech channel.

The #pianotech "ftp" site, with MIDI files, pictures and other materials 
used in current and previous discussions can be found at: 
http://www.musselwhite.com/pub

Complete information about the IRC channel can be found on the excellent 
"Official #Pianotech WWW Page" at: 
http://www.bigfoot.com/~kmvander/ircpiano.html

Many thanks to Kathleen and David Vanderhoofven for developing and hosting 
the page.

For detailed information on Starlink-IRC including how to connect with your 
browser or through WEB-TV please go to: http://www.starlink-irc.org/

If anyone has any questions, please EMail myself or David unless you feel 
the list participants might be interested. Live chat is a great way to 
exchange ideas or just spend some time in friendly conversation with 
like-minded people.

We're hoping to see some of you Tuesday and/or Thursday evenings as well as 
Sundays (or ANY time!) in #pianotech on Starlink-IRC.

                 John




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