Pianotech

Thanks for the college try, Bill.  But no cigar.  PTG-L is not listed on page 9, or on any of the 11 pages listed in the second all communities.  Regularly, I have had to change my password because the system stops recognizing it and does not let me access any of the communities.  I can read Pianotech at those times but cannot post.

The pattern of our officers regarding longstanding problems with My Pianotech has always been one of willful indifference.  Even that may be giving them too much credit.  They certainly do not acknowledge problems in a public way by posting and engaging in dialog with the users.  Little to nothing gets done.  

For an organization that is aging out and continues to shrink, and where leadership has adapted by becoming more authoritarian and removed from the membership, this modus of relating to the members only hastens the death spiral of what has been a truly remarkable and valuable organization. 

I have belonged to PTG since 1975 or so.  I have seen and benefited from all that Bill and Pat have in that time.  Over the past 5 years and more, PTG has seemed more and more tike an organization whose best days recede further into the past.  I have little faith in our leadership. 

I have a few more days to pay my dues,  I have always done that every year in the past.  Now I wonder if it is time to say no. 

No doubt I will be reminded that I should post anything controversial in PTG-L.  I would if I could.  Will my post be quietly deleted by the mind police?  Or moved to PTG-L in their infinite wisdom, where even I would not be able to read it.  Does that qualify as irony?

Thanks for the college try, Bill.  But no cigar.  PTG-L is not listed on page 9, or on any of the 11 pages listed in the second all communities.  Regularly, I have had to change my password because the system stops recognizing it and does not let me access any of the communities.  I can read Pianotech at those times but cannot post.

The pattern of our officers regarding longstanding problems with My Pianotech has always been one of willful indifference.  Even that may be giving them too much credit.  They certainly do not acknowledge problems in a public way by posting and engaging in dialog with the users.  Little to nothing gets done.

For an organization that is aging out and continues to shrink, and where leadership has adapted by becoming more authoritarian and removed from the membership, this modus of relating to the members only hastens the death spiral of what has been a truly remarkable and valuable organization.

I have belonged to PTG since 1975 or so.  I have seen and benefited from all that Bill and Pat have in that time.  Over the past 5 years and more, PTG has seemed more and more tike an organization whose best days recede further into the past.  I have little faith in our leadership.

I have a few more days to pay my dues,  I have always done that every year in the past.  Now I wonder if it is time to say no.

No doubt I will be reminded that I should post anything controversial in PTG-L.  I would if I could.  Will my post be quietly deleted by the mind police?  Or moved to PTG-L in their infinite wisdom, where even I would not be able to read it.  Does that qualify as irony?

Thanks for the college try, Bill.  But no cigar.  PTG-L is not listed on page 9, or on any of the 11 pages listed in the second all communities.  Regularly, I have had to change my password because the system stops recognizing it and does not let me access any of the communities.  I can read Pianotech at those times but cannot post.

The pattern of our officers regarding longstanding problems with My Pianotech has always been one of willful indifference.  Even that may be giving them too much credit.  They certainly do not acknowledge problems in a public way by posting and engaging in dialog with the users.  Little to nothing gets done.

For an organization that is aging out and continues to shrink, and where leadership has adapted by becoming more authoritarian and removed from the membership, this modus of relating to the members only hastens the death spiral of what has been a truly remarkable and valuable organization.

I have belonged to PTG since 1975 or so.  I have seen and benefited from all that Bill and Pat have in that time.  Over the past 5 years and more, PTG has seemed more and more tike an organization whose best days recede further into the past.  I have little faith in our leadership.

I have a few more days to pay my dues,  I have always done that every year in the past.  Now I wonder if it is time to say no.

No doubt I will be reminded that I should post anything controversial in PTG-L.  I would if I could.  Will my post be quietly deleted by the mind police?  Or moved to PTG-L in their infinite wisdom, where even I would not be able to read it.  Does that qualify as irony?

Thanks for the college try, Bill.  But no cigar.  PTG-L is not listed on page 9, or on any of the 11 pages listed in the second all communities.  Regularly, I have had to change my password because the system stops recognizing it and does not let me access any of the communities.  I can read Pianotech at those times but cannot post.

The pattern of our officers regarding longstanding problems with My Pianotech has always been one of willful indifference.  Even that may be giving them too much credit.  They certainly do not acknowledge problems in a public way by posting and engaging in dialog with the users.  Little to nothing gets done.

For an organization that is aging out and continues to shrink, and where leadership has adapted by becoming more authoritarian and removed from the membership, this modus of relating to the members only hastens the death spiral of what has been a truly remarkable and valuable organization.

I have belonged to PTG since 1975 or so.  I have seen and benefited from all that Bill and Pat have in that time.  Over the past 5 years and more, PTG has seemed more and more tike an organization whose best days recede further into the past.  I have little faith in our leadership.

I have a few more days to pay my dues,  I have always done that every year in the past.  Now I wonder if it is time to say no.

No doubt I will be reminded that I should post anything controversial in PTG-L.  I would if I could.  Will my post be quietly deleted by the mind police?  Or moved to PTG-L in their infinite wisdom, where even I would not be able to read it.  Does that qualify as irony?

Thanks for the college try, Bill.  But no cigar.  PTG-L is not listed on page 9, or on any of the 11 pages listed in the second all communities.  Regularly, I have had to change my password because the system stops recognizing it and does not let me access any of the communities.  I can read Pianotech at those times but cannot post.

The pattern of our officers regarding longstanding problems with My Pianotech has always been one of willful indifference.  Even that may be giving them too much credit.  They certainly do not acknowledge problems in a public way by posting and engaging in dialog with the users.  Little to nothing gets done.

For an organization that is aging out and continues to shrink, and where leadership has adapted by becoming more authoritarian and removed from the membership, this modus of relating to the members only hastens the death spiral of what has been a truly remarkable and valuable organization.

I have belonged to PTG since 1975 or so.  I have seen and benefited from all that Bill and Pat have in that time.  Over the past 5 years and more, PTG has seemed more and more tike an organization whose best days recede further into the past.  I have little faith in our leadership.

I have a few more days to pay my dues,  I have always done that every year in the past.  Now I wonder if it is time to say no.

No doubt I will be reminded that I should post anything controversial in PTG-L.  I would if I could.  Will my post be quietly deleted by the mind police?  Or moved to PTG-L in their infinite wisdom, where even I would not be able to read it.  Does that qualify as irony?

Thanks for the college try, Bill.  But no cigar.  PTG-L is not listed on page 9, or on any of the 11 pages listed in the second all communities.  Regularly, I have had to change my password because the system stops recognizing it and does not let me access any of the communities.  I can read Pianotech at those times but cannot post.

The pattern of our officers regarding longstanding problems with My Pianotech has always been one of willful indifference.  Even that may be giving them too much credit.  They certainly do not acknowledge problems in a public way by posting and engaging in dialog with the users.  Little to nothing gets done.

For an organization that is aging out and continues to shrink, and where leadership has adapted by becoming more authoritarian and removed from the membership, this modus of relating to the members only hastens the death spiral of what has been a truly remarkable and valuable organization.

I have belonged to PTG since 1975 or so.  I have seen and benefited from all that Bill and Pat have in that time.  Over the past 5 years and more, PTG has seemed more and more tike an organization whose best days recede further into the past.  I have little faith in our leadership.

I have a few more days to pay my dues,  I have always done that every year in the past.  Now I wonder if it is time to say no.

No doubt I will be reminded that I should post anything controversial in PTG-L.  I would if I could.  Will my post be quietly deleted by the mind police?  Or moved to PTG-L in their infinite wisdom, where even I would not be able to read it.  Does that qualify as irony?

Thanks for the college try, Bill.  But no cigar.  PTG-L is not listed on page 9, or on any of the 11 pages listed in the second all communities.  Regularly, I have had to change my password because the system stops recognizing it and does not let me access any of the communities.  I can read Pianotech at those times but cannot post.

The pattern of our officers regarding longstanding problems with My Pianotech has always been one of willful indifference.  Even that may be giving them too much credit.  They certainly do not acknowledge problems in a public way by posting and engaging in dialog with the users.  Little to nothing gets done.

For an organization that is aging out and continues to shrink, and where leadership has adapted by becoming more authoritarian and removed from the membership, this modus of relating to the members only hastens the death spiral of what has been a truly remarkable and valuable organization.

I have belonged to PTG since 1975 or so.  I have seen and benefited from all that Bill and Pat have in that time.  Over the past 5 years and more, PTG has seemed more and more tike an organization whose best days recede further into the past.  I have little faith in our leadership.

I have a few more days to pay my dues,  I have always done that every year in the past.  Now I wonder if it is time to say no.

No doubt I will be reminded that I should post anything controversial in PTG-L.  I would if I could.  Will my post be quietly deleted by the mind police?  Or moved to PTG-L in their infinite wisdom, where even I would not be able to read it.  Does that qualify as irony?

Thanks for the college try, Bill.  But no cigar.  PTG-L is not listed on page 9, or on any of the 11 pages listed in the second all communities.  Regularly, I have had to change my password because the system stops recognizing it and does not let me access any of the communities.  I can read Pianotech at those times but cannot post.

The pattern of our officers regarding longstanding problems with My Pianotech has always been one of willful indifference.  Even that may be giving them too much credit.  They certainly do not acknowledge problems in a public way by posting and engaging in dialog with the users.  Little to nothing gets done.

For an organization that is aging out and continues to shrink, and where leadership has adapted by becoming more authoritarian and removed from the membership, this modus of relating to the members only hastens the death spiral of what has been a truly remarkable and valuable organization.

I have belonged to PTG since 1975 or so.  I have seen and benefited from all that Bill and Pat have in that time.  Over the past 5 years and more, PTG has seemed more and more tike an organization whose best days recede further into the past.  I have little faith in our leadership.

I have a few more days to pay my dues,  I have always done that every year in the past.  Now I wonder if it is time to say no.

No doubt I will be reminded that I should post anything controversial in PTG-L.  I would if I could.  Will my post be quietly deleted by the mind police?  Or moved to PTG-L in their infinite wisdom, where even I would not be able to read it.  Does that qualify as irony?

Thanks for the college try, Bill.  But no cigar.  PTG-L is not listed on page 9, or on any of the 11 pages listed in the second all communities.  Regularly, I have had to change my password because the system stops recognizing it and does not let me access any of the communities.  I can read Pianotech at those times but cannot post.

The pattern of our officers regarding longstanding problems with My Pianotech has always been one of willful indifference.  Even that may be giving them too much credit.  They certainly do not acknowledge problems in a public way by posting and engaging in dialog with the users.  Little to nothing gets done.

For an organization that is aging out and continues to shrink, and where leadership has adapted by becoming more authoritarian and removed from the membership, this modus of relating to the members only hastens the death spiral of what has been a truly remarkable and valuable organization.

I have belonged to PTG since 1975 or so.  I have seen and benefited from all that Bill and Pat have in that time.  Over the past 5 years and more, PTG has seemed more and more tike an organization whose best days recede further into the past.  I have little faith in our leadership.

I have a few more days to pay my dues,  I have always done that every year in the past.  Now I wonder if it is time to say no.

No doubt I will be reminded that I should post anything controversial in PTG-L.  I would if I could.  Will my post be quietly deleted by the mind police?  Or moved to PTG-L in their infinite wisdom, where even I would not be able to read it.  Does that qualify as irony?

Thanks for the college try, Bill.  But no cigar.  PTG-L is not listed on page 9, or on any of the 11 pages listed in the second all communities.  Regularly, I have had to change my password because the system stops recognizing it and does not let me access any of the communities.  I can read Pianotech at those times but cannot post.

The pattern of our officers regarding longstanding problems with My Pianotech has always been one of willful indifference.  Even that may be giving them too much credit.  They certainly do not acknowledge problems in a public way by posting and engaging in dialog with the users.  Little to nothing gets done.

For an organization that is aging out and continues to shrink, and where leadership has adapted by becoming more authoritarian and removed from the membership, this modus of relating to the members only hastens the death spiral of what has been a truly remarkable and valuable organization.

I have belonged to PTG since 1975 or so.  I have seen and benefited from all that Bill and Pat have in that time.  Over the past 5 years and more, PTG has seemed more and more tike an organization whose best days recede further into the past.  I have little faith in our leadership.

I have a few more days to pay my dues,  I have always done that every year in the past.  Now I wonder if it is time to say no.

No doubt I will be reminded that I should post anything controversial in PTG-L.  I would if I could.  Will my post be quietly deleted by the mind police?  Or moved to PTG-L in their infinite wisdom, where even I would not be able to read it.  Does that qualify as irony?

Thanks for the college try, Bill.  But no cigar.  PTG-L is not listed on page 9, or on any of the 11 pages listed in the second all communities.  Regularly, I have had to change my password because the system stops recognizing it and does not let me access any of the communities.  I can read Pianotech at those times but cannot post.

The pattern of our officers regarding longstanding problems with My Pianotech has always been one of willful indifference.  Even that may be giving them too much credit.  They certainly do not acknowledge problems in a public way by posting and engaging in dialog with the users.  Little to nothing gets done.

For an organization that is aging out and continues to shrink, and where leadership has adapted by becoming more authoritarian and removed from the membership, this modus of relating to the members only hastens the death spiral of what has been a truly remarkable and valuable organization.

I have belonged to PTG since 1975 or so.  I have seen and benefited from all that Bill and Pat have in that time.  Over the past 5 years and more, PTG has seemed more and more tike an organization whose best days recede further into the past.  I have little faith in our leadership.

I have a few more days to pay my dues,  I have always done that every year in the past.  Now I wonder if it is time to say no.

No doubt I will be reminded that I should post anything controversial in PTG-L.  I would if I could.  Will my post be quietly deleted by the mind police?  Or moved to PTG-L in their infinite wisdom, where even I would not be able to read it.  Does that qualify as irony?

Thanks for the college try, Bill.  But no cigar.  PTG-L is not listed on page 9, or on any of the 11 pages listed in the second all communities.  Regularly, I have had to change my password because the system stops recognizing it and does not let me access any of the communities.  I can read Pianotech at those times but cannot post.

The pattern of our officers regarding longstanding problems with My Pianotech has always been one of willful indifference.  Even that may be giving them too much credit.  They certainly do not acknowledge problems in a public way by posting and engaging in dialog with the users.  Little to nothing gets done.

For an organization that is aging out and continues to shrink, and where leadership has adapted by becoming more authoritarian and removed from the membership, this modus of relating to the members only hastens the death spiral of what has been a truly remarkable and valuable organization.

I have belonged to PTG since 1975 or so.  I have seen and benefited from all that Bill and Pat have in that time.  Over the past 5 years and more, PTG has seemed more and more tike an organization whose best days recede further into the past.  I have little faith in our leadership.

I have a few more days to pay my dues,  I have always done that every year in the past.  Now I wonder if it is time to say no.

No doubt I will be reminded that I should post anything controversial in PTG-L.  I would if I could.  Will my post be quietly deleted by the mind police?  Or moved to PTG-L in their infinite wisdom, where even I would not be able to read it.  Does that qualify as irony?

Thanks for the college try, Bill.  But no cigar.  PTG-L is not listed on page 9, or on any of the 11 pages listed in the second all communities.  Regularly, I have had to change my password because the system stops recognizing it and does not let me access any of the communities.  I can read Pianotech at those times but cannot post.

The pattern of our officers regarding longstanding problems with My Pianotech has always been one of willful indifference.  Even that may be giving them too much credit.  They certainly do not acknowledge problems in a public way by posting and engaging in dialog with the users.  Little to nothing gets done.

For an organization that is aging out and continues to shrink, and where leadership has adapted by becoming more authoritarian and removed from the membership, this modus of relating to the members only hastens the death spiral of what has been a truly remarkable and valuable organization.

I have belonged to PTG since 1975 or so.  I have seen and benefited from all that Bill and Pat have in that time.  Over the past 5 years and more, PTG has seemed more and more tike an organization whose best days recede further into the past.  I have little faith in our leadership.

I have a few more days to pay my dues,  I have always done that every year in the past.  Now I wonder if it is time to say no.

No doubt I will be reminded that I should post anything controversial in PTG-L.  I would if I could.  Will my post be quietly deleted by the mind police?  Or moved to PTG-L in their infinite wisdom, where even I would not be able to read it.  Does that qualify as irony?

Thanks for the college try, Bill.  But no cigar.  PTG-L is not listed on page 9, or on any of the 11 pages listed in the second all communities.  Regularly, I have had to change my password because the system stops recognizing it and does not let me access any of the communities.  I can read Pianotech at those times but cannot post.

The pattern of our officers regarding longstanding problems with My Pianotech has always been one of willful indifference.  Even that may be giving them too much credit.  They certainly do not acknowledge problems in a public way by posting and engaging in dialog with the users.  Little to nothing gets done.

For an organization that is aging out and continues to shrink, and where leadership has adapted by becoming more authoritarian and removed from the membership, this modus of relating to the members only hastens the death spiral of what has been a truly remarkable and valuable organization.

I have belonged to PTG since 1975 or so.  I have seen and benefited from all that Bill and Pat have in that time.  Over the past 5 years and more, PTG has seemed more and more tike an organization whose best days recede further into the past.  I have little faith in our leadership.

I have a few more days to pay my dues,  I have always done that every year in the past.  Now I wonder if it is time to say no.

No doubt I will be reminded that I should post anything controversial in PTG-L.  I would if I could.  Will my post be quietly deleted by the mind police?  Or moved to PTG-L in their infinite wisdom, where even I would not be able to read it.  Does that qualify as irony?

Thanks for the college try, Bill.  But no cigar.  PTG-L is not listed on page 9, or on any of the 11 pages listed in the second all communities.  Regularly, I have had to change my password because the system stops recognizing it and does not let me access any of the communities.  I can read Pianotech at those times but cannot post.

The pattern of our officers regarding longstanding problems with My Pianotech has always been one of willful indifference.  Even that may be giving them too much credit.  They certainly do not acknowledge problems in a public way by posting and engaging in dialog with the users.  Little to nothing gets done.

For an organization that is aging out and continues to shrink, and where leadership has adapted by becoming more authoritarian and removed from the membership, this modus of relating to the members only hastens the death spiral of what has been a truly remarkable and valuable organization.

I have belonged to PTG since 1975 or so.  I have seen and benefited from all that Bill and Pat have in that time.  Over the past 5 years and more, PTG has seemed more and more tike an organization whose best days recede further into the past.  I have little faith in our leadership.

I have a few more days to pay my dues,  I have always done that every year in the past.  Now I wonder if it is time to say no.

No doubt I will be reminded that I should post anything controversial in PTG-L.  I would if I could.  Will my post be quietly deleted by the mind police?  Or moved to PTG-L in their infinite wisdom, where even I would not be able to read it.  Does that qualify as irony?

C. Dues Reduction and Deferment 

1. Financial Hardship 

In cases of inability to pay as determined by chapter members, a chapter may vote to maintain a member on the PTG roll by paying an annual fee of 1/2 of membership dues on behalf of the member directly to the Home Office. This payment shall maintain the member's good standing, Journal subscription, and all other benefits. 

a. Executive Committee approval shall be required for a due's reduction in two or more consecutive years. 

b. Due's reduction request forms, if approved, will take effect on January 1 of the following year. (For example: an application received on or before December 31,2022 will be effective on January 1, 2023 whereas an application received on or after January 1, 2023 will not go into effect until January 1, 2024.) Payment from the chapter equal to one-half of the PTG annual membership dues must accompany the request. 

2. Retirement or Disability 

Any member may apply for a reduction of dues if they: 

a. Have been a member in good standing of PTG for 10 or more continuous years up to the time of application, and 

b. Have reached the age of 65 and drawing Social Security benefits (or the equivalent), or have been declared medically disabled by the Social Security Administration (or the equivalent), and 

c. Have the approval of the chapter or the Board of Directors. 

d. If the member meets the requirements in "a, b, and c" above, the member may request a dues reduction by submitting the appropriate form to the Home Office. If approved, the dues reduction will take effect on January 1 of the following year. (For example: an application received on or before December 31,2022 will be effective on January 1, 2023 whereas an application received on or after January 1, 2023 will not go into effect until January 1, 2024.) Payment equal to one-half of the annual membership dues must accompany the request. 

Thanks for the college try, Bill.  But no cigar.  PTG-L is not listed on page 9, or on any of the 11 pages listed in the second all communities.  Regularly, I have had to change my password because the system stops recognizing it and does not let me access any of the communities.  I can read Pianotech at those times but cannot post.

The pattern of our officers regarding longstanding problems with My Pianotech has always been one of willful indifference.  Even that may be giving them too much credit.  They certainly do not acknowledge problems in a public way by posting and engaging in dialog with the users.  Little to nothing gets done.

For an organization that is aging out and continues to shrink, and where leadership has adapted by becoming more authoritarian and removed from the membership, this modus of relating to the members only hastens the death spiral of what has been a truly remarkable and valuable organization.

I have belonged to PTG since 1975 or so.  I have seen and benefited from all that Bill and Pat have in that time.  Over the past 5 years and more, PTG has seemed more and more tike an organization whose best days recede further into the past.  I have little faith in our leadership.

I have a few more days to pay my dues,  I have always done that every year in the past.  Now I wonder if it is time to say no.

No doubt I will be reminded that I should post anything controversial in PTG-L.  I would if I could.  Will my post be quietly deleted by the mind police?  Or moved to PTG-L in their infinite wisdom, where even I would not be able to read it.  Does that qualify as irony?

Thanks for the college try, Bill.  But no cigar.  PTG-L is not listed on page 9, or on any of the 11 pages listed in the second all communities.  Regularly, I have had to change my password because the system stops recognizing it and does not let me access any of the communities.  I can read Pianotech at those times but cannot post.

The pattern of our officers regarding longstanding problems with My Pianotech has always been one of willful indifference.  Even that may be giving them too much credit.  They certainly do not acknowledge problems in a public way by posting and engaging in dialog with the users.  Little to nothing gets done.

For an organization that is aging out and continues to shrink, and where leadership has adapted by becoming more authoritarian and removed from the membership, this modus of relating to the members only hastens the death spiral of what has been a truly remarkable and valuable organization.

I have belonged to PTG since 1975 or so.  I have seen and benefited from all that Bill and Pat have in that time.  Over the past 5 years and more, PTG has seemed more and more tike an organization whose best days recede further into the past.  I have little faith in our leadership.

I have a few more days to pay my dues,  I have always done that every year in the past.  Now I wonder if it is time to say no.

No doubt I will be reminded that I should post anything controversial in PTG-L.  I would if I could.  Will my post be quietly deleted by the mind police?  Or moved to PTG-L in their infinite wisdom, where even I would not be able to read it.  Does that qualify as irony?

Thanks for the college try, Bill.  But no cigar.  PTG-L is not listed on page 9, or on any of the 11 pages listed in the second all communities.  Regularly, I have had to change my password because the system stops recognizing it and does not let me access any of the communities.  I can read Pianotech at those times but cannot post.

The pattern of our officers regarding longstanding problems with My Pianotech has always been one of willful indifference.  Even that may be giving them too much credit.  They certainly do not acknowledge problems in a public way by posting and engaging in dialog with the users.  Little to nothing gets done.

For an organization that is aging out and continues to shrink, and where leadership has adapted by becoming more authoritarian and removed from the membership, this modus of relating to the members only hastens the death spiral of what has been a truly remarkable and valuable organization.

I have belonged to PTG since 1975 or so.  I have seen and benefited from all that Bill and Pat have in that time.  Over the past 5 years and more, PTG has seemed more and more tike an organization whose best days recede further into the past.  I have little faith in our leadership.

I have a few more days to pay my dues,  I have always done that every year in the past.  Now I wonder if it is time to say no.

No doubt I will be reminded that I should post anything controversial in PTG-L.  I would if I could.  Will my post be quietly deleted by the mind police?  Or moved to PTG-L in their infinite wisdom, where even I would not be able to read it.  Does that qualify as irony?