Calendar Fall 2024 – Spring 2025

Here is our Fall 2024 – Spring 2025 calendar.

Indy PTG Chapter Meetings:  Generally, the 2nd Tuesday of the month 7:00 pm (with some exceptions as per special events, as below)

October 8, 2024, 7:00 pm

  • Chapter meeting:
  • Technical Discussion:  Floating Pitch above and below A440 hz / Pitch Raising
  • Location: Piano Warehouse of Indianapolis, 8509 Zionsville Rd, Indianapolis, IN 46268

November 9, 2024, Saturday 9am to 4:30pm
**Confirm attendance by Wednesday, November 6th to be included for lunch.

  • Chapter meeting:
  • Technical Discussion:  Grand Piano Regulation and Voicing with Matthew Banks
  • Location:
    North United Methodist Church
    3808 N Meridian St
    Indianapolis, IN 46208Welcome to Matthew Banks, Concert Technician, Indiana University
    Matthew Banks has had the privilege of working as a concert piano technician at Steinway & Sons in New York, where he also taught piano building at the Steinway factory. During his time at Steinway, he worked on pianos at prestigious venues such as Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, Alice Tully Hall, and Madison Square Garden. Matthew worked with hundreds of Steinway Artists to meet their needs.  He later served as the Head Technician at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music before becoming Chief Technician at Faust Harrison Pianos. Matthew has spent several summers as a concert technician at the Aspen Music Festival. Currently, he is a concert technician at the Jacobs School of Music. Specializing in concert piano preparation, Matthew is dedicated to ensuring that each instrument is performance-ready at the highest level, maintaining a commitment to craftsmanship that brings out the best in both the instruments and the artists.

December 2, 2024, 6:30pm Chapter Christmas Party

  • Dinner and White Elephant Gift Exchange
  • Location: Jazz Kitchen
  • See post or email about RSVPing to the event

January 14, 2025, 7:00 pm (No Meeting)

  • Chapter meeting:
  • Technical Discussion:
  • Location:

February 11, 2025, 7:00 pm

  • Chapter meeting:
  • Technical Discussion:  Revisiting Virgil Smith’s Aural Tuning Temperament by Lisa Londe
  • Location: Piano Warehouse of Indianapolis, 8509 Zionsville Rd, Indianapolis, IN 46268

For those who may not have seen this program before or are just learning how to set an aural temperament we will focus on “laying the bearings” with Virgil Smith’s tuning sequence.  It’s an inspired method developed by Virgil employing m3rd’s and M3rd’s and how they relate to P4th’s and P5th’s, as well as M6th’s – with an understanding of what happens when any of these intervals are expanded or contracted in equal temperament.

March 5-8, 2025 – 2025 South Central Regional Conference (SCRC)

March 15, 2025, 10am to 2pm

  • Chapter meeting:
  • Technical Discussion:
    Basic, core skills or preparing for the PTG Technical Exam
    we will cover:
    *Stringing: Treble wire replacement, tied strings and string splicing – knots
    *Key bushing: Front and Balance rail mortise
    *Flange bushing,
    *Repinning action centers 
    *Hammer shank replacement
  • Location:  Winter & Sons piano shop
                      9600 S. 525 E., Indianapolis, IN  46259

April 8, 2025, 7:00 pm

  • Chapter meeting:
  • Technical Discussion: Tuning with CyberTuner presented by Ron Berry, RPT

Learn from Ron the nuances of using CyberTuner.  Ron has much to share about tuning with the iRCT software app and has been one of the earliest adopters and proponents of understanding tuning with ETD’s

  • Location:
North United Methodist Church
3808 N. Meridian St.
Indianapolis, IN  46208

May 13, 2025, 7:00 pm – Chapter Elections

  • Chapter meeting:
  • Technical Discussion:
  • Location: .

June 10, 2025, 7:00 pm

  • Chapter meeting:
  • Technical Discussion:
  • Location: TBD

July 16-19, 2025 – 2025 PTG Convention and Technical Institute

  • Location: Des Moines, IA

July ??, 2026 – 2026 PTG Convention and Technical Institute

  • Location:  Arlington, VA (Washington D.C.)

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