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What eBay sellers say, and What they mean:
From: http://www.poorpiper.net/store/info.html
Sialkot, Pakistan is the "garden spot" of Middle-East Bagpipes. It is the home of MANY, MANY Bagpipe companies. The quality from company to company varies greatly, from complete garbage, to very high professional quality. Some of these professional quality companies actually sell Bagpipes and Bagpipe parts to some Scottish Bagpipe makers. Bargain-hunting merchants who sell many different instruments, none of which they actually know how to play, will purchase the cheapest Bagpipes they can find and sell them to you. All Bagpipes look pretty when they are brand new. To someone who does not play Bagpipes, cheap junk looks pretty much the same as high standard Bagpipes. So, quality is not an issue. Only price.
What eBay sellers say, and What they mean:
Say: Beautiful quality.
Mean: They're shiny & new.
Say: Comes with a bottle of seasoning.
Mean: We don't know how to season a bag, so we're just going to send you the seasoning & let you figure it out.
Say: Comes with 2 sets of reeds.
Mean: We have no idea what good reeds look like, so we're going to give you 2 sets & hope that one of them works.
Say: Never been played.
Mean: We have no idea how to set these things up and test 'em. You do it.
Say: .....Long page of hype & glitter, pictures of their store, .gif animations, fancy colours and graphics.
Mean: Don't bother looking for any sort of actual description. We have no idea what we're selling, we just want you to buy it.
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That's pretty much right on. If they had any idea what they were selling, the description would say, "Mass-produced Eastern bagpipes. For display only, not playable unless you are a masochist. Reeds and bag provided for show only."
By the way, since they usually send you cane reeds, you might need more than two sets to find ones that work.
"To the make of a piper go seven years of his own learning, and seven generations before. At the end of his seven years one born to it will stand at the start of knowledge, and leaning a fond ear to the drone he may have parley with old folks of old affairs." - Neil Munro
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