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in this video we're going to buy and
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unbox a cheap ham we'll talk about some
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of the pros and cons of buying these
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instruments we'll get realtime reactions
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to the sound of it also test and compare
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with a more expensive instrument and
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talk about other options if you know you
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definitely can't afford a topend handan
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we'll talk about what other options are
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out there I hope you enjoy time Stamps
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will be down below let's dive in funny
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the first thing that comes up when you
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search hand pound on Amazon is tongue
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drums which is usually not what somebody
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is after when they search hand pen
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£269 7% off brilliant now the one thing
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I just want to double check so I can
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definitely return this item there are no
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videos of it I'm doing it three two
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one let's have a look shall
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we so we have got
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a store which is advertised as a hempen
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stand it's just a fishing store which is
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fine I also use one as a hemp
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stand not sure what these things oh
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mallets build your own
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mallets um some rope for the for the rim
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and then we have the pan without having
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gotten it out yet it feels very little
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let's see there is the £250
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handan smells kind of
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funky um it's already got rubber around
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it so it doesn't need the rim it's also
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got rubber in the uh goo here which
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would imply that it's just a sharp um
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cut and it hasn't been smoothed over
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feels like it's got some kind of coating
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on it which is good I'm about to give
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this handan as a birthday gift to my
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girlfriend to see what she thinks of it
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but before I do that before things get
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silly I would love to have a little bit
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of real talk so we can talk about some
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of the issues and some of the positives
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of buying a cheap hen like this um I
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know that lots of you who watch my
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channel have bought hens from Amazon and
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teu um as well as percussion Brands like
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Toma and minor and very much enjoy the
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instruments I personally don't but I
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realize that I'm coming from a massive
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place of privilege in that I've got
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access to all of these instruments um
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because I work together with makers now
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my worry with cheaper instruments that
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are Factory made for the customer um it
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might be disheartening to try and play
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something that somebody teaches in a
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tutorial online and then you play the
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exact same thing and it just doesn't
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sound as good um and it's very easy to
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become disheartened and think that
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you're not a good player and that that
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might uh stifle your creativity and I
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don't want that for anyone I had the
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same issues when I first started there
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weren't tutorials around but there were
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videos of people playing and I would
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watch them and think why don't I sound
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like that when I play and I really
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thought I was bad at playing and I I I
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was but it wasn't just that there was so
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much that I just couldn't do with the
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instrument that I had because it just
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wasn't capable of achieving those same
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sounds the metal was thin it didn't hold
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its tuning but in many ways it actually
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really encouraged me um to be more
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creative because it forced me to try and
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achieve more with what I had so
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positives and negatives to that another
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worry that I have is that if there is
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any damage to the instrument um if it
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does lose its tuning or if it arrives
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and it is Out Of Tune um then there is
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no one that you can contact in order to
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get it fixed or get it tuned most hempen
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builders that might be more local to you
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actually can't fix them they they don't
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just refuse to do it because you know
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it's made in a factory not made by me or
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whatever that's not the issue it's that
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they're so temperamental that as soon as
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you give it one hammer hit one strike
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Anything Could Happen you could throw
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the the whole instrument out and it's
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unfixable um a lot of these instruments
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are are very unstable and are not fully
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completed they haven't been through the
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many processes that a a regular hempen
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has been through another worry that I
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have is that some of these instruments
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are so cheap that they don't even reach
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the same cost as what materials would be
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for other Hans the Hans that you can
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find on Teemu for like1 I I wonder how
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on Earth they're made who's not getting
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paid properly for their labor that's how
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I think and feel take it as you will I'm
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not trying to force you into any
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specific belief about these instruments
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I know that many can't afford them and
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want to play them and I love
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accessibility I think it's great with
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that in
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mind here is a real time
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reaction um to this instrument okay I'm
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going to present it okay close your eyes
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and come in
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eyes
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dangerous I'm F my voice there's so many
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expensive things in this room okay stop
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okay hands up Palms
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up it's quite
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heavy
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it's thank you you're welcome and a case
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and a case cheap case what what is it
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turn
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wow this is my birthday friend um how I
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know it's not like to ask how much did
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okay no it's not your real
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birthday I can give it back okay
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I mean I I love
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it I just thought because you needed
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more curs for your classes which you
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know if I never played a h before I'd
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probably be quite thrilled I feel like
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the low end they've done all right the
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ding's not bad it just really goes
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off I think the
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problem is that the harmonics aren't
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tuned oh yeah there's just like a pitch
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that is not even vaguely yeah I guess
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they must get like get the domes they
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kind of guessed the approximate shapes
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and they just like w't out and then
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they're like I'll do like there's no one
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with no one non Quality Control Plus
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like this is very odd it feels like it
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like I don't want to do it but it feels
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like it could be bent out of it's not as
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thin as I thought it might
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be but I would imagine with excessive
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playing it will it I don't think it'll
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hold it
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tuning yeah all the shoulder and stuff
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like all the little like touches that
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make a good instrument yeah 250 I think
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is too cheap for a hand I mean that's
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not even materials yeah yeah yeah
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literally I don't know how you can make
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a hen for £250 it's like just just the
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shells alone should cost more than that
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a terrible birthday present you're
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welcome but it's not as bad as I thought
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I mean obviously for 250 is like not as
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terrible as it could be yeah I mean for
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real it sounds awful but I think like
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we've been used to playing very specific
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instruments very very high quality well
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I guess like for me it makes me think if
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you if you were going to spend 250 on a
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handan and you can save up for like even
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5 6 700 yeah like I reckon somehow they
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might manage to make it I don't know I
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think even in that price range you're
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still at the risk of if you're looking
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for500 hand pans you're probably on
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dodgy websites yeah that's the thing
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it's probably it's probably this marked
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up probably the same instrument yeah and
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like you know you just don't know what
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you're getting like that that website
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that used my face like used my face
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holding a handan and it was like Oh
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Linda from Birmingham loves this hand
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and you're holding a Celestial s
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literally completely different so like
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you know that they're dishonest on that
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from so if you hear a video and they're
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all of like different makers and stuff
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then you know that what you're buying
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isn't isn't what they're selling you
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yeah yeah
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SP the up moment
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it's funny it's got like a ow sound to I
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think you should have a go on it kind
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wow yeah I think all right I think you
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should you might enjoy it so you can't
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afford a high-end instrument but you
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definitely don't want to buy a factory
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made instrument what are your options um
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there are makers out there now that are
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starting beginner Series so hemp pens
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that are still made by them but are done
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in such a way that they're able to keep
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their costs low they won't be as good
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quality as the regular Hans but they're
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definitely good enough to get you going
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on your journey to be able to follow
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tutorials and to be able to explore um
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the full range of the sounds that you
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can make until you're ready to move on
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it's also a little bit more moral buying
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from uh makers that are paid well that
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pay their work as well etc etc so I
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recommend finding those uh if you're
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able there are also branded factory made
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instruments that are at least have been
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through some kind of vetting process so
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you know they're going to be better
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quality than the ones that are just
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randomly shipped I would still be
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careful of those because it's very easy
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to fall into uh scams there there are
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some that look really legit that really
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aren't um I made a whole video on how to
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choose a Haman you can check that out
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I'll put a link in the description have
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a look out for beginner series have a
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lookout as well for new Builders um that
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might be selling prot prot types um a
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lot of new builders that are coming on
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the scene now are training under
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existing Builders so are very quickly
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making very good quality instruments but
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while they're still learning are keeping
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their prices low so these are really
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good opportunities as well I recommend
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joining groups on social media reddits
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Facebook Etc um and just doing a bit of
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research to find um Hans that might be
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good for You Secondhand Hans as well are
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an option um they don't tend to go down
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in price that much yet so it's probably
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better to just buy new I made a whole
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video about it you can check it out um
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and I really hope that you find the
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instrument for you is that
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cross yeah bet it's just stored in it's
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probably just stored in a warehouse I
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mean I have just kept it in a bug for a
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week I don't think that's the problem
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