65 Chevy 3/4 ton truck with one man piano loader for sale, cheap.

[Jim Kinnear]

can you send a picture of the loading apparatus ??
Jim Kinnear
www.pianoguy.com
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "gordon stelter" <lclgcnp@yahoo.com>
To: "Pianotech" <pianotech@ptg.org>
Sent: Friday, October 22, 2004 12:35 PM
Subject: 65 Chevy 3/4 ton truck with one man piano loader for sale, cheap.


> 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
> > 
> > 
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