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Next week I'll be in Teh States
Topic Started: Feb 27 2009, 05:02 PM (277 Views)
kenny
HOLY CARP!!!
As a student studying piano technology I am fortunate to gain access to some unique opportunities.
The program at University of Western Ontario is highly regarded and UWO graduates have gone on to some choice positions.

The industry helps groom us to become tomorrow's leading piano technicians.
Sure there's something in it for them; good work and we will become ambassadors.
Seiler has taken some of us for asignments in their factory in Germany.
The Steinway factory, Steinway Hall, Aspen and Tanglewood (Boston Symphony Orchestra's summer home) have all hired UWO's graduates.
Florida State University's Masters Program in Piano Technology welcomes UWO PT graduates.

Sunday morning our class is piling into a big tour bus.
We will drive to Haverhill MA.
I hear it's a 12-hour ride. :(

Monday morning we tour M+H's factory.
Evening in Boston Common.

Tuesday we drive to NY to tour the Steinway factory.
Tues afternoon I meet Bernard, with whom I am staying. :wave:

Wed morning we visit a piano rebuilding shop on Long Island.
Wed afternoon attend private workshop at the Metropolitan Museum of Art that highlights their Early Keyboard instrument collection.
In previous years some UWO students were honored with the rare privilege of actually playing some their collection's priceless and fragile instruments.

Thursday, tour Carnegie Hall, not the usual tour that the public gets when they enter through the front door - a private one starting at the stage door and conducted by an insider and friend of our leader.

Then walk across the street for a Steinway Hall tour, again a behind-the-scenes tour conducted by a piano tech contact of our boss.
Then
Faust Harrison
Klavierhaus
Beethoven Piano
Bechstein Piano

The rest class then departs in the bus Thursday night, but I will remain in NY.
Sunday, I take train to Toronto.

I'm not sure, should I bring my camera?
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brenda
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YES! Bring the camera, and take lots of great pics, too.

WOW! What a great trip, Kenny. I wish I was going with you. I'd love all of it. And how lucky that you get to see Bernard, too.

Green with envy, I am. :yes:
“Weeds are flowers, too, once you get to know them.”
~A.A. Milne
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sue
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HOLY CARP!!!
Wow, what a trip. Your head will be spinning after all those pianos. Sure does sound like the UWO students are well respected, to get in so many doors. Awesome, Kenny.

Have a great time. :wave:

bus ride will be fun. you guys can sing all those highly irritating long bus ride kiddie songs. :hat:

:sing: 99 bottles of beer on the wall.....
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TomK
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How much weight did you gain in Canada, kenny? Or are you smuggling walruses in the the USA under your shirt.
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CTPianotech
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Definitely take your camera. While they don't allow them for most the S&S tour, Mason and Hamlin allows them pretty much everywhere.

You're good at taking pictures. You've gotten down most all the important piano terminology stuffs. You'll be able to give us all an excellent virtual tour afterward. :yes:

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kenny
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Oh, I forgot to mention.
A documentary film is being made about us.
Mics and cameras will be ubiquitous on our trip. :hair:
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Renauda
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HOLY CARP!!!
TomK
Feb 27 2009, 05:14 PM
How much weight did you gain in Canada, kenny? Or are you smuggling walruses in the the USA under your shirt.
Worse. Narwal tusks wrapped in polar bear pelts
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jon-nyc
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Cheers
Oh man, I'm off to merry England again next week.

I would have liked to see you, Kenny.
In my defense, I was left unsupervised.
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kenny
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That would have been nice.
Have a fun an safe trip. :hug:
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