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Links: Dave's Web Picks
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The PTG National web page has links to many outstanding and useful sites: their own web forums, manufacurers, supply houses, and educational sites.  But here are a few piano and music related links that are "off the beaten path" that I think are particularly interesting or unique. Let me know if you have your own favorites and I'll add them here.    - DS. 
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Listings of upcoming Classical Music events in the Columbus area, including all the local instrumental and singing groups, and university recitals. 
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Columbus Symphony upcoming concerts and news.
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Excellent articles about the fundamentals of piano acoustics, published by the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, Sweden. 
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This guy is a fanatic collector of piano recordings, and his web site includes lengthy commentary about all the great pianists of the 20th century.
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The collection of historical musical instruments at the University of Michigan School of Music. The web site has a virtual tour including pictures and sound samples. 
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The piano company who answered the question: "What would happen if we made a piano with plain-wire bass strings?"
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A compendium of some bizarre home-made instruments, like the Stalacpipe organ, the Light Harp, and the Harpsicord made of LEGOs.
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Musical on-line exhibits from the Exploratorium science museum in San Fransisco. 
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For those of you interested in mechanical player instruments
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Beautiful old uprights converted to beautiful new uses.
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A guy in Iowa decides the best thing to do with his old upright is to convert it to an aquarium