Originally Posted by
OC Richard
Yes there's an anti-Pakistani prejudice in the Highland piping world, and an anti-Chinese prejudice in the ordinary band/orchestral musical instrument world.
It's not a prejudice about people or race, but a prejudice about manufactured products, which is based on the established track history of the tendencies of their products.
If you see clarinets from 100 different Chinese firms and they're all terrible, and bagpipes from 100 different Pakistani firms and they're all terrible, you develop low expectations.
But there are the rare, very rare, outliers!
One could lay two sets of Highland pipes on the table, a Pakistani-made set from that ONE firm that makes fairly decent pipes, and a Scottish-made set from that ONE firm that makes sub-par pipes, and conclude that Pakistani and Scottish pipes are comparable.
Exactly!!
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“The convents which the fathers had destroyed...the sons, rebuilt…”
—Hereward the Wake, ‘Of the Fens’
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