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   Paul Cantrell (inthehands@hachyderm.io)'s status on Tuesday, 03-Dec-2024 11:38:24 JST Paul Cantrell

   I’m always telling people: beware the free piano, because a $0 piano can quickly turn out to be a $-2000 piano.

   (Not to say don’t accept the freebie, but…pay a piano technician for a quick inspection first, so they can tell you what you’re getting yourself into.)

   Apparently my piano purchasing advice is already baked into our intuitions: https://newsie.social/@TheConversationUS/113586312380030591

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     Paul Cantrell (inthehands@hachyderm.io)'s status on Tuesday, 03-Dec-2024 11:42:53 JST Paul Cantrell

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     If you actually want my piano-buying advice and not just offhand comentary on behavioral experiments, my advice is that you should get yourself a copy of The Piano Book by Larry Fine.

     If you want to buy or care for a piano, it’s gold.

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     Eleanor Saitta (dymaxion@infosec.exchange)'s status on Tuesday, 03-Dec-2024 13:02:08 JST Eleanor Saitta

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     @inthehands
     "Free as in a piano" has been in my vocabulary for a long time, as another point on the "free as in [speech|beer|a puppy]" spectrum

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     Paul Cantrell (inthehands@hachyderm.io)'s status on Tuesday, 03-Dec-2024 13:03:07 JST Paul Cantrell

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     • Eleanor Saitta

     @dymaxion
     Oh, that’s good. Despite my saying above, I’d never thought to use the phrase as a part of that classic lineup!

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     Paul Cantrell (inthehands@hachyderm.io)'s status on Wednesday, 04-Dec-2024 01:32:56 JST Paul Cantrell

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     • tentative existence

     @fedivergent
     *slow clap*

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     tentative existence (fedivergent@mstdn.social)'s status on Wednesday, 04-Dec-2024 01:32:57 JST tentative existence

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     @inthehands Larry Fine is no stooge.