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Excellent set of videos on Patrick O'Hare's site too for Facebook users. He basically details and demonstrates the steps in his book, from staple to tuning in the chanter.

For Glasgow and the West of Scotland it's 'mince' , 'pure mince' if the nonsense is unadulterated.

Sorry, images show where I'm at. No other placement of holes other than those I tabulated. If I do get round to this project I'll post the results or pm you. Looks like only you and me left on this thread anyway, despite the 9k views!
Cheers,Gerry

[quote][/quote] HI Beirnach. Short answer is I wimped out. Tunborough and I exchanged emails on modelling the hole placements but couldn't do it in the end. I practised on dowel in the drill press but was unhappy with the centreing of the holes. Then I tried building a jig for the press and then usi...

Hi sapatos. The proposals to exempt finished musical instruments and parts can be read here: https://cites.org/eng/cop/18/prop/index.php Scroll down till you see the trees! There are downloadable pdf files too. The meeting is scheduled for August 2019 so not too far off. Expectation seems to be the ...

Uilleann Pipes is it? Ye'll no be wantin' one o' these then?

Cue Glasgow King's Theatre pantomime audience: "Oh yes,it does! I'm a mild-mannered chap by nature, but this one was a staple of Glasgow pub arguments for decades. So I'll pick up the gauntlet. Here's Murdock's Pub on the subject, phonetic alphabet and all to assist our EEC cousins: https://www...

Since we're in the poststructural pub Glenmorangie rhymes with orangey if that's any use to you.

If you go here Pat:
https://open.spotify.com/user/johnpipes
John McSherry has done an astonishingly comprehensive job on Spotify. A playlist he has made up from what's in their archive? Basically everything you would ever want to listen to, catalogued for you already.
Enjoy

Hi Aidan
Lots of Aussie contacts here:

celticpipingclub.com

Including contact details for Australian player/ maker David Goldsworthy who posts here as Ausdag
Beautiful sets, some in native Aussie woods.

Hope this helps. Best of luck with your search

Nice work. Good onya as they say down here!

Are you for reel? Do your jigs slip too?

I've done a couple. I'm a weekend woodturner and not a particularly good boxmaker. it's a skill in itself, but can be done if you can source the materials and are tooled up. The one in Indonesian Rosewood I did myself (clearly if you look at the quality of the mitres etc.). The second is a former cu...

Hi Warpwookie Detailed instructions for making a smallpipe chanter reed yourself here: https://www.evansbagpipes.co.uk/images/factsheets/reedprint.pdf Eric Reiswig's pvc smallpipes here. Drones and mainstock measurements might be useful?: http://www3.telus.net/ereiswig/ssp_make.htm A wealth of infor...

irishmuse wrote: Now, while we're talking left field, has anyone made square cross-section whistles?

Hi Terry. You mean like this?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D4-ndIBbzHI