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Are you planning on attending, or exhibiting at the NAMM 2007 Show this January (Anaheim)?

If you are going, what are your goals/objectives?
Anything in particular you're hoping to see or do?

Or, if you're exhibiting, what and where?

I will be there Thurs - Sun.

Would be happy to meet any of our forums members while I'm there. If you'd like to meet up to say hello, please let me know.

Either way, please post your thoughts and pictures when you get back.

Also see this post...
NAMM Get Together

I'll certainly be there, hanging out in the Kawai booth.

I might even buy you lunch or something, Frank. I know a really great Mexican place that's away from the crowds a bit . . .

Frank,

I wont be there this year, but RJ will be. If you go, let me know. I am sure he'd like to meet you.

I will certainly be in attendance, i'll be out there for a week. looking forward to it for sure. Hope to see some fellow dealers out there. Happy holidays everyone.

I'll be there. After all I made the past 30 Winter NAMM Shows.

I'll be working out of the Samick booth. Stop by and say hello!

Ok, I'm booked.

Arriving Thursday morning, leaving Sunday afternoon.
Hopefully I can catch up with some of you while I'm there.

Hi Frank,

I'll be there once again representing the Steigerman line of pianos, booth #403 in the main piano room, where we will officially unveil our new "Premium" line of pianos.

Maybe a group of us can again have dinner this year, at a different restaurant this time...

See ya there.

Hi Dino,

I'll certainly stop by.
Is the Piano Traveler's Group having their get together again?

And yes, I'd be interested in getting a group together, but definitely at a different restaurant:-)
[It took me 3 days to get the taste of their "homemade" wine out of my mouth]

Best

Frank B.

I'm hoping I can go. (I'm working at a local piano store as a floor tuner, and I talked to someone there and she said she'd get me a badge.)
It will be my first time.

Also, I'm hoping to make it to the CA State PTG conference in the Bay Area this coming year, and am considering my options for the PTG national in '07. (I hope to be able to afford it, now that I have a semi-respectable income, compared to unemployment, that is.)

I would go if there was a serious business opportunity for me. I am a certified piano technician, and I have a plan for marketing pianos that I would like to get some backing on.

Randy,

I have seen this term "Certified Piano Technician" a few times, but don't understand it. Can you tell me what organization or entity certifies piano technicians?

Thanks for any information you can give.

Actually, I am a registered piano technician with the PTG. The general public seems more receptive to the term "certified" and I have made it the title of my business, "A Certified Piano Technician".

There may be a semantics argument regarding the correct use of the term, since there is no actual state certification of piano tuners.

I beg your forgiveness.

Hi Frank,

I'll be there from Wednesday noon through Monday morning. I'll be wandering between our underwriter's booths doing personal appearances, signings, and other general schmoozing

Let's set up a time to meet and have a drink since we missed each other when I was in NY. I'm at the Hilton the whole time. Let me know so I can get it scheduled before too late and my week totally fills up.

It'll be fun!
Scott

Stop it you all!
You are making me very jealous now!

You're on.
I'm there Thurs/Fri/Sat night, so whatever works.

I'm at the Anaheim Marriott Suites (up the street, not the one next to the Convention Center).

A question about NAMM: my college-age son (who is a drummer) is dying to go for a day. Are tickets EVER made available to the public for sale? (Someone at a local music store told my son that NAMM was going to let the public in on one of the days, but I don't believe it.)

No, it will never happen. It gets voted down every year.
They do it at the Big show in Germany and it is a disaster. Stealing, and spilled soda and beer are the worse culprits,followed closly by putting cans and Big Gulp cups full of melting ice on pianos.

I was planning to go. But after careful thought I have decided not to go this year.

Being a relatively lowly person in the piano retailing hierarchy I look at NAMM as a kind of homecoming where I can greet and thank all of my dealers and manufacturers under one roof at one time.

You guys/gals are the best. I couldn't have picked a better industry to be in -- in whatever capacity.

I'll be in the area Thursday/Friday/Saturday (Los Angeles Society of Pathologists meets Saturday); if there's a general PianoWorld party (as there has been in previous years) please post info.

I couldn't say anything until now but I think all you piano people are the best.

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