hi guys,
i was interested in bidding for this flute:
http://cgi.ebay.it/Flauto-irlandese-irish-flute-fife_W0QQitemZ7413727685QQcategoryZ10183QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem#ebayphotohosting
is it a pak or something playable?
thanks in advance 
This is primarily, maybe almost exclusively, an English-speaking community here on C&F. So it might help a bit if you would translate the Italian text from the eBay listing into English for us. Also, I was unable to figure out if there is a way to blow the photos up big enough to get a better look at the flute. At this point, let me diverge from the English myself and say caveat emptor.
It doesn’t say much about the instrument, except that it’s an Irish wooden flute in D, little used, and that it comes apart into three pieces.
The photos resemble (that’s all I can make out) an older version Pak that I have. The newer versions are a lot better…but… 
This one probably falls under the “if you don’t know who made it or where it came from…” rule of thumb. 
it says: irish wooden flute in D, rarely used, selling because changing musical intrument, can be undone in three parts and can be tuned (great Bloomfield!)
pics can’t be seen larger..
i personally think it’s pakistan made.. but i’m a piper so i might be wrong.
i think i’ll ask the seller…
Thanks for helping!
If you have any news, please keep on posting..
I was browsing through a music store in a mall on Mother’s Day, heaven forbid. I asked the owner about Irish flutes, and he pulled a flute, similar to the one in the ebay ad, from under the counter. I took one look at the apparent Pakistani “flute-like object”, and I told the store owner that I wasn’t interested. For what it’s worth, however, the store owner said that the flute was only $200 and that he had never had a complaint about other flutes like this that he had sold. I wonder whether the salesperson really believed what he told me, or whether he was merely trying to put one over on me, not knowing that I was forewarned about these flutes on C & F and also being a one-time gullible bidder for such a flute on ebay. The display case in the back of the store, which contained several badly cracked violins, hinted at the answer to my query.
Funny. Most pipers I know can’t be wrong.
Yep. They’re never more than a minor third away from a really good note.