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

Our technical speaker will be Arlan Harris RPT, who will discuss a variety of topics, and will welcome participation from the members.

Arlan has over 30 years experience as a piano technician. Formerly of Steinway & Sons in New York, Arlan worked in the well known basement of Steinway Hall in the 80’s, then worked as a liaison for Steinway & Sons as an independent contractor for 12 years as a Concert Piano Technician, Educator, Troubleshooter in Latin and South America. He has worked in the majority of major venues as well as serving artists and tours. Arlan was the Director of Technical Division for Faust Harrison Pianos for 6 years and Director of Technical Division and Concert/Artist Services with Klavierhaus for three years. He regularly assists concerts and recordings in New York City and frequents major venues such as Lincoln Center, 92nd St. Y, Carnegie Hall, and Town Hall. Arlan combines “in the trenches” knowledge and experience combined with a holistic approach to solving problems using a wide variety of tools and techniques. A few of the many artists Arlan has worked with include: Vladimer Feltsman, Ivgenni Kissen, Oscar Peterson, Chick Corea, Angela Hewitt, James Levine, Louis Lortie, Herbie Hancock,etc… Arlan is currently owner of Arlan Harris Productions and offers Music Production services, Piano Concert Services and brokering services, and serves his clientele.

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

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

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The meeting was held on the Zoom platform. 11 members were present. Mike Slavin called the meeting to order at 7 p.m.

Alex Kostakis presented the technical. The technical was an open forum. Alex began with a Broadwood piano that he reconditioned. 8 bass strings were dead sounding. He explained how he fixed the soundboard structure and the strings resonated. Paul Keogler next discussed replacing capstans on a Steinway. He commented that WNG parts work better than Renner parts but each has advantages. Alex said some Renner parts will not work equally well on both Hamburg and NY Steinways. Next was a discussion on how to sell a repair job to customers. Arlan Harris commented on the sustenuto bar and how to adjust it. A live demonstration was talked about for future meetings. Balistol was again mentioned as a lubricant with many uses.

Our first meeting on Zoom had about 5 members. This meeting had 11. It keeps building which is good.

The meeting ended at 8:30 p.m.