The general meeting for this month will be held on Tuesday, November 13, 2018 starting at 7:00 p.m. at:

Frank and Camille's Keyboard Center
482 Walt Whitman Road (Route 110)
Melville, New York 11747
(631) 385-0606

Please note: Frank and Camille's closes at 8 p.m. The meeting must begin promptly.

This month's technical class will be a presentation by Michael Slavin, RPT, on a method to maintain absolute accuracy of all essential considerations when installing new grand hammers, which include strike point, hammer line, square string strike and traveling, una corda, spacing and alignment, voicing, etc.

The Executive Committee can meet for dinner before the meeting at a local restaurant if there is interest. Contact Michael Slavin at (516) 781-8888, or send an email to slavinpiano@aol.com to make arrangements.

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Next month's meeting will be our year-end dinner party, to be held on Tuesday evening December 4 at 7 p.m. (the FIRST Tuesday of the month). Our annual Holiday tradition will continue at:

Tesoro Ristorante
967 Old Country Road
Westbury, New York 11590
(516) 334-0022

The four-course dinner is $50 per person (including tax and tip) with a cash bar. We hope everyone will plan to attend. Further details will appear in next month's newsletter. Please make checks payable to the Long Island-Nassau Chapter PTG.

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