The general meeting for this month will be held on Tuesday, May 10, 2022 starting at 7 p.m.

This month's technical presentation will be by the renowned Steve Brady, RPT. Steve's class will be "Dampers from the Ground Up," a presentation given at the national Convention in Orlando and elsewhere.

Steve Brady Piano Tech Bio 2022
The 2016 recipient of PTG’s Golden Hammer award, Steve began his career as a piano technician in the Phoenix area. He later served as head piano technician at the University of Washington in Seattle for 25 years. While working at the UW, he studied Music Theory and Music History at both the undergraduate and graduate levels. During his tenure at the UW, Steve tuned and prepared pianos for nearly 5,000 concerts and recitals, and worked with most of the leading pianists of our time, including Murray Perahia, Alfred Brendel, Andras Schiff, Garrick Ohlsson, Emanuel Ax, Peter Serkin, Richard Goode, Claudio Arrau, Alicia de Larrocha, Andre Watts, Vladimir Feltsman, and Evgeny Kissin. He has also been the official piano technician for the Governor’s Mansion in the state of Washington since 1989. More recently, he served as chief concert technician at the Aspen Music Festival & School for five summers.

Steve served for six years as editor of the international monthly Piano Technicians Journal. In 1999, the Piano Technicians Guild published his book, A Piano Technician’s Guide to Field Repairs. He has published portions of his Master’s thesis on Brahms’s pianos and piano music in four different publications, including the book, Brahms and His World. His latest book, Under the Lid: The Art & Craft of the Concert Piano Technician, was published in 2008, and will appear in a newly revised edition in the summer of 2022.

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For everyone's safety, we will be holding this meeting remotely via Zoom. To participate, make sure you have Zoom installed on your device: download Zoom

You will receive an invitation by e-mail early on the day of the meeting with a reminder shortly before the meeting.