Any thoughts?

anima · Post by **anima** » Mon Aug 26, 2002 8:17 pm

Any thoughts on who made this? Just curious.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vi ... =902136699

Tony · Post by **Tony** » Mon Aug 26, 2002 8:36 pm

You're braver than me...
I saw that thing yesterday and wanted no part of it!!
I suspect their being made in Pakistan and will end up in the same catalogs as those non-tunable no name brass whistles, Shawms and medieval pipes.

anima · Post by **anima** » Mon Aug 26, 2002 9:50 pm

Brave? I dunno, just curious. It looks pakistani to me, I've just never seen one like this. I wonder what kind of reed it has.

Jeff

Tony · Post by **Tony** » Tue Aug 27, 2002 4:22 am

Probably the same (one octave) plastic reed found in the other mouth blown practice chanters.

Dionys · Post by **Dionys** » Tue Aug 27, 2002 9:47 am

Oh.. You can get a little more than one octave from those reeds. They just sound like a dying goose being strangled by a mouse.

Dionys

Paul · Post by **Paul** » Tue Aug 27, 2002 11:22 am

There is a paragraph under the picture saying that the thing in question comes from thumpmusic.com. If you go to the site you will see the aforementioned device for $59.00 along with a myriad of other inexpensive and probably unplayable pipes presumably of pakistani origin including a full mini set of some kind for $39.00.

Tony · Post by **Tony** » Wed Aug 28, 2002 6:32 am

If the starting bid is the same as the retail, there is no incentive using eBay.

It would be interesting to see if this could be reeded with a traditional cane reed and played w/ bag and bellows. That would be an inexpensive way for a club to get started using it for loaner/rental to students.