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I would recommend gouging the tails; the additional material is raising the tails like a lever, putting more pressure toward the lips.

tommykleen wrote:
[ironic phrase warning] I wish I had a dollar for every time someone walks up, puts a dollar in my case, and says "Gotta pay the piper!". Bless them.

You didget a dollar for every time they put a dollar in

non-UP, but an old anecdote is relevant: Welsh Harper and English Bagpiper Last Sunday I came - a man whom the Lord God made - to the town of Flint, with its great double walls and rounded bastions; may I see it all aflame! An obscure English wedding was there, with but little mead - an English feas...

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These are the weakest notes, so stability needs to be introduced to the reed to make these more "solid". There are a couple things that I look at when this happens: 1. Reed is too long, so clip the lips of the reed only slightly. This will open the reed and relatively strengthen your scrap...

Those look like what I call cornflowers? If so, I've got about two acres of unmowed pasture that's full of the things. I'll have to pull a few up and take a look. I don't think of the stems as big enough in diameter, but maybe ... ? https://www.google.com/search?q=cornflowers&ie=utf-8&oe=ut...

Colorado tea? lol

Lorenzo wrote:

Off topic, but this would be snowberry tea? Looks delish.

I thought it was already banned? I don't get it.

jdevereux wrote: My mom does a lot of forging and knife making

Did anyone not catch that?

depends on your chanter . . . For my Sloan chanter it took a while for me, but I usually leave a note open on my bottom hand, so it will look like: x xxo oxxx x xoo oxxx x xxo oxxx x xxx oxxx x xxo oxxx This is what I usually do . . . sometimes I will cut with the c-natural key if I want a sharper c...

the bore of the chanter is a truncated cone. the internal volume of the reed and its staple must be equal to, (or as near as possible) to the "missing" portion of that chanter bore's cone. the purpose of the staples' taper is to approximate the continuation of that cone, to its peak. This...

You should post the images in this forum as well, if you are able to. some people don't have accounts on the other forum.

lack of humidity? Perfect time to make a reed, IMHO.

or why a reed would revive itself on its own . . . pulled out a dud reed yesterday, and I'll be darned it works