List, I put about $3,500 into the mechanicals on this thing less than 3,000 miles ago. Then the transmission disintigrated, and it sat for 4 months before I started it again. Now it runs roughly ( bad gas? stuck float in carb? ) I found another tranny for $100 but have decided to let the truck go because I have 3 others and don't move many pianos anymore. $1,500, obo. Atlanta area. Has: Rebuilt NAPA engine, bored to about 300CI. L-6 New: Heater motor and core, wiper motor, steering column, steering box, radiator, all new front end everything ( ZERO slop in steering! ) exhaust system, alternator, electric winch., etc.. A good project for someone who wants a picturesque vehicle that can load pianos ( uprights ) solo. Detacheable rack for grands. $1,500 obo. G Stelter (770) 725-5949 --- Richard Brekne <Richard.Brekne@grieg.uib.no> wrote: > David Love wrote: > > >The cork line was a joke referring to the wine > analogy, not meant to be > >taken literally or personally. There is applicable > science to this area > >which ought to be employed whenever possible. The > variables that effect > >people's preference for new or old cannot easily be > isolated, and that > >includes a psychological factor. > > > > > > > > I took it as a joke, but also saw the moment of > levity in it as well. > I'm all for using whatever tools, including any > applicable science, in > aiding one to build-design-whatever a piano, but not > at the expense of > allowing the musical ear to determine for itself > what it likes or > doesnt. To much of our industry today already seems > willing to accept > that if <<the machine>> says its no good... then its > no good. This > whether the case be tuning, scale design, soundboard > construction > approach, action functions, whathaveyou. Granted > tho.. psychology comes > into it quite a bit... some times uncomfortably so. > For that matter > marketing, myths, magic and mystism... and I can go > a long way down that > road many take in raising a skeptical eyebrow > towards all that. But > that said, one needs to be, IMHO, just as on guard > against the same kind > of thing in reverse. I have heard some pretty > fantastic claims made in > the name of science in my time here. > > Anyways... as long as we strive to keep seperate the > realm of the > subjective from that world which is made up of facts > and figures, and do > not try to justify one or another standpoint by > inapproapriately mixing > these particular P's and Q's... we leave the field > open for all tastes, > and clear for understandable explanations of why > each of us do what we > do without danger of these coming in conflict with > one another. > > What can I say... different strokes... not better or > worse just > different. The only better or worse bit comes in > when you dont > accomplish what you set out to do in the first > place. > > Cheers > RicB > > > _______________________________________________ > pianotech list info: > https://www.moypiano.com/resources/#archives > _______________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Express yourself with Y! Messenger! Free. Download now. http://messenger.yahoo.com
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