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> As a musician when I purchase a synthesizer, I am buying the circuit. The enclosure/build quality/etc is secondary, though obviously an important consideration.

The enclosure may be of secondary importance to you as a musician, but from a "hand making" point of view, when I buy a synth, I'm buying many hours of work that went into making a solid, good-looking case around the circuit, applying filters and responsive knobs and patches and all sort of inputs and outputs and maybe a keyboard and other kind of controllers.

If we justify that Etsy is entitled to not consider handcraft a hand made synth because the main source of sound may not have been engineered by the seller, tomorrow they can as well ask any seller of knitted wool sweaters to provide pictures of them shearing those sheep whose wool has been used because users say:

"As a wool sweaters aficionado when I buy a sweater, I am buying the wool"