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- Fri Aug 21, 2020 12:14 pm
- Forum: Uilleann Pipe forum
- Topic: What's wrong with the fit of my pipes?
- Replies: 16
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Re: What's wrong with the fit of my pipes?
I'm only seeing one image at your imgur link, mainstock & bellows tube tie-in. Whoops, sorry, not sure what happened there. I added that image last as an afterthought! I think you're right that the neck is too long for where it is, but I'm not convinced where it is is right, if that makes sense.
- Fri Aug 21, 2020 11:47 am
- Forum: Uilleann Pipe forum
- Topic: Irish Pibroch or Ceol Mor
- Replies: 4
- Views: 4694
Re: Irish Pibroch or Ceol Mor
As with all these things, I'd be cautious about what you read online - there are a lot of people with bees in their bonnets out there, and some have more enthusiasm than scholarship. However, that the Scottish ceòl mór genre also had some kind of a foothold in Ireland is quite certain, and it's like...
- Fri Aug 21, 2020 11:33 am
- Forum: Uilleann Pipe forum
- Topic: What's wrong with the fit of my pipes?
- Replies: 16
- Views: 9633
What's wrong with the fit of my pipes?
Here are some pictures: https://imgur.com/a/gdyLOXt I don't have a tape measure to hand but as you can see I am generously proportioned, perhaps 48-50 inches around at the point my bellows strap sits. And I am having real problems with things not pointing comfortably in the right direction. The dron...
- Fri Oct 25, 2019 4:10 am
- Forum: Uilleann Pipe forum
- Topic: Jarlath Henderson ‘Raw’
- Replies: 8
- Views: 11416
Re: Jarlath Henderson ‘Raw’
Some lad by the name of J. Henderson. I hear he plays a bit toororybbellows wrote:Who sings on " the trees they do grow high" really nice ?
- Fri Oct 25, 2019 3:55 am
- Forum: Uilleann Pipe forum
- Topic: McCallum getting into uilleann making
- Replies: 85
- Views: 57010
Re: McCallum getting into uilleann making
The thing about MacCallum is that although they are a volume manufacturer, their setup is such that it is very easy for them to do small runs. You load twenty bits of wood into the feed, and tell it to run 19 off GHB chanters and 1 off Morrison Uilleann chanter, and so on. So there's no commercial u...
- Fri Feb 09, 2018 3:12 pm
- Forum: Uilleann Pipe forum
- Topic: Female pipemakers?
- Replies: 11
- Views: 5168
Re: Female pipemakers?
I know it's a small thing but females=biology; women=people.
- Fri Feb 09, 2018 3:08 pm
- Forum: Uilleann Pipe forum
- Topic: Uilleann Pipe Beginner
- Replies: 9
- Views: 5048
Re: Uilleann Pipe Beginner
Where are you from Cameron? Much easier to point you in the right direction if we know that.
I'm afraid as a rough guide you want to multiply the amount you spent by about ten...
I'm afraid as a rough guide you want to multiply the amount you spent by about ten...
- Fri Feb 09, 2018 3:03 pm
- Forum: Uilleann Pipe forum
- Topic: Boxwood blight
- Replies: 7
- Views: 3482
Re: Boxwood blight
My smallpipes were made out of delrin two decades ago and while there might be little romance in it, they play just fine and will outlast me. It's not great fun to turn by hand, but in this CNC age I'm sure someone will grasp the nettle soon enough.
- Thu Sep 07, 2017 4:00 am
- Forum: Uilleann Pipe forum
- Topic: The limerick piper painting
- Replies: 54
- Views: 35883
Re: The limerick piper painting
I love the editorial interventions the engraver has made there. Very telling.
- Tue Sep 05, 2017 4:14 am
- Forum: Uilleann Pipe forum
- Topic: Alan Logan Information
- Replies: 4
- Views: 3338
Re: Alan Logan Information
Just to be clear, the forum software doesn't like naughty words, so you'll have to work out for yourselves what "lichen" refers to...
- Tue Sep 05, 2017 4:10 am
- Forum: Uilleann Pipe forum
- Topic: Alan Logan Information
- Replies: 4
- Views: 3338
Re: Alan Logan Information
Alan's GHB work is notorious for its variability, though his good instruments are very good indeed. His output was not massive.
He was a Scots Guardsman under Angus MacDonald. As fas as I know his piping career came to an end when he was jailed for child lichen possession a few years back.
He was a Scots Guardsman under Angus MacDonald. As fas as I know his piping career came to an end when he was jailed for child lichen possession a few years back.
- Sat Aug 19, 2017 4:15 pm
- Forum: The Trad Tech Forum
- Topic: Drone software or app
- Replies: 3
- Views: 3523
- Tue May 16, 2017 7:51 am
- Forum: Uilleann Pipe forum
- Topic: One for the mathematician
- Replies: 19
- Views: 8287
Re: One for the mathematician
I have done a quick spreadsheet using the formulae coloman pointed at: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1ehFM8ucu6d2rWM6iS_tXpV7aKUSK8F8fuiMWOkQ02d8/edit?usp=sharing and pinching Andy's numbers. There's an error in there, though, and I'm scratching my head a bit to figure out what it is. My fi...
- Tue May 16, 2017 4:10 am
- Forum: Uilleann Pipe forum
- Topic: Britishairways tips
- Replies: 5
- Views: 2980
Re: Britishairways tips
Top tips: if you can, use shoulder straps so that you're not obviously carrying something big and bulky to the gate. Second, check in early and get to the front of the queue. The last people on are the ones who get their luggage hoiked. Doesn't really matter what airline it is, the guidelines are al...
- Sat May 13, 2017 7:14 am
- Forum: Uilleann Pipe forum
- Topic: Lawrence Thompson email?
- Replies: 2
- Views: 2071
Re: Lawrence Thompson email?
Yep. Lawrence lives in an analogue world.