[sdiy] Getting over eBay (rant)

[Batz Goodfortune]

Y-ellow Don 'n' all.

At 01:55 AM 6/13/02 -0700, Don Tillman wrote:

>Because Charlie Kaman's company built helicopters, they wanted to
>branch out into some consumer field, Charlie Kaman was a guitar
>fanatic, his attempt to purchase Martin Guitars failed, he wanted to
>build a better guitar, he was able to apply some helicopter
>technology, he thought the idea of a round-backed instrument had some
>promise, and he thought the best way to do that was with fiberglas.
>
>Not because of limited wood resources.

Well good for Charlie. Look. I only read this stuff, Unlike you I wasn't 
there. But this is guitar stuff and I don't give a nat's chuff about it. I 
generalize a lot. I don't have the time to write a thesis.

If you didn't manage to read between the lines here. There are things you 
can recycle by scrapping them but pianos and vintage synths alike, aren't 
amongst them. Yamaha, or anyone else are foolish if not criminal to take 
that attitude. Especially with their pianos etc. If I were a greeny, which 
I'm not, I'd be outraged and proclaim them not only environmental vandals 
but artistic extortionists.

But I've formed the opinion that 50% of any business comes down to 
extortion. Except in the case of Microsoft or sony where it's probably more 
like 99 percent. Hell the tobacco industry only kills people. The latter 
pair get the world horribly addicted to their frivolous crap and then 
forces us to turn tricks on the street in order to pay for it.

Now I'm off to do some whoring.

Be absolutely Icebox.

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