Tue Dec 21, 2010 12:24 pm
Hi. Sorry for the delay.
Since the default of Contrebombarde.com is to participate in the locator program, it became hard to determine who was willing to be a host and who was not.
At the same time, we really want people to be able to visit someone who owns Hauptwerk in order to experience it in person.
I have gotten manual email requests very often from people looking for someone near them to ask about seeing their Hauptwerk system. Because I know who has our products, what kind of system they have, and where they are, I am able to ask those customers directly if they are willing.
Those people have always graciously and enthusiastically agreed. Those people are the ones who show up as Confirmed Hauptwerk Host.
The "MIDI Works Hauptwerk Expert" is someone who we are working with who owns our products and who offers some other Hauptwerk related service or product. We'll hopefully be working with more of those sorts of folks in 2011. Note: that person is not necessarily endorsed by Hauptwerk LLC.
Overall, the aim is to make things easier to find someone where you can reliably experience Hauptwerk first hand. Not everyone can make it up to our shop.