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The IAPBT profile.

The International Association of Piano Builders and Technicians (IAPBT) was founded at the US city of Minneapolis in July 1979 initiated jointly by US and Japan associations of piano technicians.

The IAPBT is mainly designed to pursue for the more advanced technology to improve and maintain the piano quality.To this end, IAPBT make great efforts to promote the technological exchanges of piano technicians and manufacturers at the international level and strengthen their cooperation for technological research.

The IAPBT is in the system of corporate member, each of the corporate member representatives a country or a region. In case there is a corporate member in IAPBT, the individual member from the same country or region is not allowed to take part in the association. For the time being, the IAPBT members include:

APTTA（Australia Piano Technicians and Tuners Association）
CPTA（China Piano Tuners and Technicians Association）
JPTA（Japan Piano Technicians Association）
KAPT（Korea Association of Piano Tuners）
PTG（Piano Technicians Guild）
SAAPPT（South African Association for Professional Piano Tuners）
TPTA（Taiwan Piano Technicians Association）
UEPBA（Union of European Piano Builders' Associations），also called as EuroPiano；
Individual members are spread throughout countries, such as China HongKong, Greece, Republic of Cyprus, Argentina and Uzbekistan.
Euro Piano is an association of 18 countries which are the United Kingdom , Germany, France, Italy, Switzerland, Austria Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Spain, Finland, The Czech Republic, Russia, Estonia, Poland and the Netherlands.

More current information about the IAPBT can be found at http://my.ptg.org/iapbtw/home

The IAPBT Convention

Since it was founded in 1979, IAPBT has persisted on holding the biannual meetings, which have been successfully held for 18 times. The convention to be held in Moscow is the eighteenth convention of IAPBT, and it is also the first meeting held in the mainland of Russia.
List of IAPBT Conventions (incl. time & places)

Minutes of the IAPBT meetings