Chiff and Fipple Forums

I have a really nice SSP set for sale, see the Used Instrument Exchange for details.

All gone. Thanks, Bernd!

I have an MK Pro, which I like. You can really push it, taking the tone from fairly pure up into tons of harmonics. I haven't seen anyone weigh in on the Burke Viper? I've heard good stuff about it.

The Holy Grail of narrow bore! Drool...........

[Perhaps against my better judgement, this post shall stand. - Mod]

I'm selling my circa 1992 Ray Sloan African Blackwood smallpipes. It has chanters in A and D with split stocks and a stock cap. Both chanters have Gernam silver hand chased ferrules and imitation ivory soles. The set has four drones, 2 in A and 2 in D. The D drones will tune up to E, and the low A w...

Not playing it, purchased in 2006 as a special order. Beautiful, clean tone, no issues at all. Michael's site lists retail for a Bb at $250, I'll let this go for $200 or best offer. Will also be listed on Facebook C&F site, see there for pics. Cheers!

The other option I am looking at is popping for a Shannon.. Or the Somers that is for sale on the Used forum.. except I have heard that the Somers is a very loud flute.. Anyone ?? I've only had my Somers Pratten for a day or two. You can MAKE it play loud, and a Pratten has a lovely loud "honk...

There's a Delrin Somers for sale on the "used" forum. I just got one. Nice tone and great in a bar brawl.

I was so impressed with my Sindt High D whistle that I bought one in each of the following pitches Eb, C, Bb and A. That was 10 years ago or more. Great investment and they are whistles that I enjoy using all the time. I have a Sindt D/Eb which are top-notch, matched only by my Water Weasels. Don't...

The actual seller, David Parkhurst (who is a fine piper, upright chap and likes Laphroaig) is selling a Sindt A/Bb set, one head, two bodies. Oops.... it's sold. Stay tuned, I'll be posting a Burke brass B (I think it's a B, I'm at work) for sale tonight. I will post both on FB and here, give fellow...

I know I am a bit behind the times, but I can't seem to access the main C&F page..... what happened?

BTW, to see what's possible, you might pull up http://www.geocities.ws/parkhurstwhistles/whistles.htm. It's an old site but it seems to work for me.

It's not voodoo, you just have to be patient and have about 20' of copper kitchen pipe to destroy.

I've worked with copper a bit :D . It's fairly soft, easy to turn on a machine lathe as long as your tools are sharp. You can make a basic whistle by hand using shop tools. In my opinion it needs nothing in the way of coating, although if you let it sit for a long time there is a transient copper ta...

Hi Gang,
Looking to find the contact info for Chris Coe, pipemaker. I assume he's still making pipes? Looked on the NPU site and couldn't find any info. Any help is appreciated. Cheers!

I think I may have a little experience with copper whistles to impart. The amount of "chiff" as well as a great deal of the tone is a product of HOW it's made, as much as the material it's made of. I have made both very warm and very edgy sounding whistles from copper, it just depends on h...