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Hi everyone. I’m selling my first full set (I now have a Childress full set). This is one of those sets Tim Britton did the rebuild on. A combination of finances and the fact that I really only play the Childress set anymore (when I have time to play at all) convinced me to put them up. This is a fu...

Oh, I had no intention of requesting a wood other than the two that are on his regular price list. He does them, apparently, in which ever of the two woods the buyer prefers...I was just wondering if there was anything in general that I should know about rosewood before I even start thinking about g...

I have violin fittings that are snakewood. It looks real cool, but I wouldn't want pipes made of it (it's hard, but has a weird structure, I could see parts snapping as I actually had that issue with the tailpiece). I'm going with BC Childress when I order the set. Of the pipes I've gotten to see an...

so I'll soon be taking the plunge and ordering a proper full-set. I've always liked the look of Rosewood over Blackwood, but I want to do this "right" and am currently leaning toward the blackwood set. Sooooooo is there any particular reason to go with blackwood over rosewood? I've always ...

anybody giving lessons within reasonable commute from central nj? please pm if you are.

le buíochas,
antaine

go raibh maith agat, a DJM...agus leat fhéin.

ps - tá an duster sin céanna agamsa freisin! (me too)

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"The control adjustments that sounds good to their ears may not be correctly adjusted for playing with drones." that is an invaluable key to alleviating much consternation. while i have always understood the principle behind the initial post (though still trying to master the practice), th...

go raibh maith agat, a Uilliam...agus leatsa féin...

soooooooooo I forgot how nice it is to have a new brucereed for my chanter...been playing the last for about three years or thereabouts nearly effortless to get a note new synthetic drone reeds for the first time, too. I can't really decide which I like better. I don't notice much of an air-requirem...

thank you gentlemen...much obliged...

Hi all...I'm wondering if anybody knows a place online where I can get my hands on in-channel gouges of the sizes appropriate for reedmaking, and what sizes do you recommend. I have the booklet from tim britton and he gives some sizes in there, but I'd like to get a little more input.

thanx

while I've only dealt with a handful of people, Bruce Childress is at the top of my list. When I had an old reed he'd made that wasn't up to snuff anymore, he took it back, adjusted it and sent it back. I don't recall exactly, but I don't remember him charging me for that. I was buying keys at the t...

I thought the last set sold...you remember, he had the air hose sheath covering the gap between chanter and chanter cap? My guess is he has a couple of them, but whether just one or a few he knows exactly what he has, hence his very careful disclaimers about not knowing what he's talking about with ...

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