One-day Seminar with Ben Cross
Saturday, April 11, 2026 9:00a - 4:00pm
Dallas College Brookhaven Campus
3939 Valley View Ln, Farmers Branch, TX 75244
Topics: Regulation (3hrs) and Voicing (3hrs), including demonstration of Ben's new Powered Voicing Tool
Please Register by April 6th
Lunch will be provided. Seminar cost is $25 for PTG members, $75 for non-PTG Members.
Link to Registration:
Link to Ben Cross Registration on Google Forms
Ben Cross, RPT is a Piano Builder, Tool Maker, and Piano Technology Educator Living in New York City. He honed his craft at the North Bennet Street School for Piano Technology from 2016 to 2018. He built Grand Pianos at Steinway and Sons NY from 2018-2021 and is currently the Concert Technician at Faust Harrison Pianos, a position he's held since 2020. Ben specializes in preparing pianos for retail, home, and concert settings, ensuring each instrument is in tune, well voiced, and regulated properly. Learn more about Ben at bencrosspiano.com.
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A Day with Wim Blees
Saturday, May 16, 2026 9:00am - 5:00pm
Dallas College Brookhaven Campus
3939 Valley View Ln, Farmers Branch, TX 75244
Topics: Myths and Facts of pitch adjustments, Setting fees and using time efficiently, Tuning a spinet like a concert grand, and Appraising Pianos. He also has a short presentation of what life is like tuning pianos in Hawaii.
Please Register by May 11th
Lunch will be provided. Seminar cost is $25 for PTG members, $75 for non-PTG Members.
Link to Registration
Link to Wim Blees Registration on Google Forms
Wim Blees, RPT, started working on pianos in his dad’s shop when he was 12 years old. After he graduated from college and taught band and chorus for six years, he started his full time piano service business in 1977 in St. Louis, Missouri. Then from 2001 – 2007 he was the piano technician for the University of Alabama. In 2007 he and his wife moved to Hawaii, and in August of 2021 he retired from full time piano work and moved to Florida.
Wim has given lectures at over 55 PTG seminars and convention on a wide variety of subjects including tuning, repairing, rebuilding and business. He has served on the PTG Board of Directors as the Central West Vice President and was a CTE for many years. In addition to writing numerous articles for the Piano Technicians Journal, he is the author of: the business of piano tuning: a guide to marketing, managing, promoting, buying and selling a piano service business. in 2021 Wim was awarded Member of Note at the PTG convention in Orlando.