Jon,

Can you tell us how to get to the Piano Tech Chat room?  I've never done
this before, and didn't understand what an "IRC" is, or what the #pianotech
means.

Thanks.

Larry Lobel

 [ Editor's Note:
 [
 [ I'll answer the part that I know.  "IRC" means Internet Relay Chat.
 [ Its a mechanism by which several people with compatible software can
 [ rendezvous via "relay servers".  It creates the computer equivalent
 [ of a conference telephone call.  Everyone connected to conference sees
 [ everything that everyone else types.  The part "#pianotech" is the
 [ name of the conference.
 [
 [ The part thats not clear to me is how many IRC servers there are, and
 [ how you know which one to connect to.  The name #pianotech, as best
 [ I can tell, is like having a phone number without having the country
 [ and city codes (area code for us US folks).  I'm hoping that someone
 [ can provide us with some technical information as to how you pick
 [ the IRC server to connect to.  There have been some IRC server names
 [ mentioned previously, but they are not full domain names.  Can
 [ someone explain how to derive the correct domain name or IP address
 [ to connect to ?
 [
 [ Jody