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Great wee programme. Thank you for sharing.

Joe used to be a MAJOR contributor on here. Sorry to hear he's gone.
Boyd

Very sorry to hear that news.
He used to be a great man for posting on this forum.
B

Here is on of about half a dozen uploads of Robbie HANNAN all from ITMA
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Dmr-gIeRQ2A
This one will let you find the others.
Well worth it !

There are two music shops in Inverness. They are very close together. At least one of the shops doesn't allow you to blow the whistles for health and safety reasons. I guess things like cold sores (herpes simplex virus) can spread through sharing of mouth blown instruments. Alba Whistles will be mor...

Is it just my stupid brain....I have always reduced hole size (via tape or wax) to flatten individual notes.

Here you are saying it will raise the pitch?

I have an E flat resin M&E flute for sale, tuning slide and metal mounts, comes in the case I got with it. I bought it new from Michael Cronnolly a good few years ago now. It's in good nick, not been abused at all, handy for the odd E flat session, I got this one to harmonise with a B flat flute...

PM sent

A recurring question:
viewtopic.php?f=6&t=101482&p=1167547&hilit=Mic#p1167547

This link has some suggestions.
Boyd

https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=uilleann+pipes&biw=1374&bih=1047&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&sqi=2&ved=0ahUKEwizo-Tg6KnKAhVGvhQKHRjyBbsQ_AUICCgD#tbm=isch&q=uilleann+piper&imgrc=nYR13-pGOMw70M%3A look at the (many) pictures here and it is evident that there is qui...

I suggest you get someone to take a couple of pix of your hands holding your chanter and post them here.
That will assist advice and common understanding of the issue.
Boyd

Damn..... I thought it was David Attenborough

To avoid left and right confusions, since "to the right" from the audience perspective is the opposite to the piper perspective. (And then there are left-handed pipers to think of !)...... If you describe laterality in terms of the bag side and bellows side of the piper then....... I think...

Hi Brad
I sent you a PM with a link to a copyrighted photo.

Readers of this thread should search google images for Liam O'Flynn, he is a good starting point for how to do it.
2 condensers placed strategically.

Boyd

Brian Stafford and Josie Nugent concert https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q6JkBpQQrL8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yfNWh9UfvZI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H-LXdIGuddI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LobAWk7xzTg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ExpybhfWGtU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M_8krqis...