Posted by Klaus on January 17, 2002 at 02:39:07:
Without giving any link to any more or less disliked auction site:
For a long period there has been a lot of Bessons
pocket cornets of Southasian origin swamping the electronic auction sites of various nationalities.
Today I saw the first Bessons
"euphonium" (called a tuba) put up for auction.
I looks exactly like some of the Indian instruments with exotic names. But whereas these names carry some sort of warning in their very exoticity, "Bessons
" might sound more trustworthy.
In the narrower context of this board a warning like this one is redundant. But somehow it is my not so humble opinion, that all of us readers and contributors of /to this board carry some responsibility to spread warnings like this one.
Klaus
PS: I mailed the seller to protest his item description.