Whatever happened with Casey Burns' 3D printed flute project?
It was looking very promising, great-sounding lightweight flutes for a low price.
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- Thu Apr 18, 2024 8:22 pm
- Forum: Flute Forum
- Topic: Delrin flute suggestions for 2024?
- Replies: 21
- Views: 1237
- Thu Apr 18, 2024 8:17 pm
- Forum: Flute Forum
- Topic: Aulos Stanesby Flute
- Replies: 2
- Views: 76
Re: Aulos Stanesby Flute
I was a Baroque Flute Major for a time in Uni, yes there's only one fingerhole for F natural and F sharp. It plays around halfway between the two notes. For an in-tune F sharp you finger xxx|xoo and open the D# key and roll the flute out to bring up the pitch. For an in-tune F natural you finger xxx...
- Tue Apr 16, 2024 11:10 am
- Forum: Flute Forum
- Topic: Delrin flute suggestions for 2024?
- Replies: 21
- Views: 1237
Re: Delrin flute suggestions for 2024?
Says the guy who plays bagpipes! :lol: Yes, and I only play wood bagpipes because Delrin pipes are much heavier. It doesn't make sense for makers use the same wall-thickness they use for wood, when using a much heavier denser material like Delrin. There is one maker, Roddy MacLellan, who makes a th...
- Fri Apr 12, 2024 5:38 am
- Forum: Irish Traditional Music Forum
- Topic: Bothy Band re-form for "Celtic Connections" Jan.2024
- Replies: 6
- Views: 7795
Re: Bothy Band re-form for "Celtic Connections" Jan.2024
I sat transfixed and watched that documentary all the way through. Parts of it felt like a blend of The Boys from County Clare and A Mighty Wind ! Paddy in the background getting his pipes sorted, people trying to remember arrangements they've not played since the 1970s. (If you've not seen The Boys...
- Wed Apr 10, 2024 6:02 am
- Forum: Non-Uilleann Piping
- Topic: How to leard to blow the bag
- Replies: 190
- Views: 150309
Re: How to leard to blow the bag
https://i.imgur.com/Kq68uYN.jpg What can we glean from the picture? The gouger has no real understanding of how a GHB chanter functions. The gouger has no measurable understanding of how GHB chanter reeds function. Wow that's a blast from the past!! For people outwith the Scottish Pipe Band world t...
- Wed Apr 10, 2024 5:21 am
- Forum: Non-Uilleann Piping
- Topic: How to leard to blow the bag
- Replies: 190
- Views: 150309
Re: How to leard to blow the bag
What you're saying was exactly the impression of our Tonemeister, and the rest of the pipers, when we switched from Ross Gore-Tex bags with the cannisters and hoses to Gannaway bags with nowt inside. Personally I couldn't perceive much difference with the drones, but the chanter clearly seemed to be...
- Mon Apr 08, 2024 10:22 am
- Forum: Non-Uilleann Piping
- Topic: How to leard to blow the bag
- Replies: 190
- Views: 150309
Re: How to leard to blow the bag
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- Thu Apr 04, 2024 9:55 am
- Forum: The Chiff and Fipple Whistle Forum
- Topic: Does anyone own a McManus "GT Session" whistle?
- Replies: 4
- Views: 375
Re: Does anyone own a McManus "GT Session" whistle?
To play the GT Session whistle roughly in tune required you to blow basically as hard as you could for the second octave and barely at all in the first octave. It wasn't good for sessions because the volume was too inconsistent. You hit upon the exact issue. Each maker has to choose where to put th...
- Wed Apr 03, 2024 5:10 am
- Forum: Flute Forum
- Topic: Delrin flute suggestions for 2024?
- Replies: 21
- Views: 1237
Re: Delrin flute suggestions for 2024?
All the Delrin/Polypenco flutes I've tried were very heavy, much heavier that the wood flutes I've owned. Are there makers who do a "thinned" Delrin flute? I imagine it would need a raised lip-plate, achieving the same blow-hole depth as a wood or thick-walled Delrin flute, to get a simila...
- Mon Apr 01, 2024 4:28 am
- Forum: The Chiff and Fipple Whistle Forum
- Topic: Is Alba still selling whistles?
- Replies: 14
- Views: 746
Re: Is Alba still selling whistles?
Thanks all for the additional data points, I think I need a bigger chart! So we have Goldie mezzos in A and G using 15mm bore, and Goldie mezzos in G and F measured with 18.2mm, 18.5mm, and 19mm bores. (I wonder whether Colin's batches of tubing have varied a bit, or people are measuring slightly di...
- Sat Mar 30, 2024 5:46 am
- Forum: Uilleann Pipe forum
- Topic: Uilleann Pipe Buying Questions
- Replies: 11
- Views: 988
Re: Uilleann Pipe Buying Questions
Contact Andreas Rogge, tell him your situation, and be prepared to spend a premium on actually getting a functioning reed to survive a trip to Africa. Start with a practice chanter. Banish ALL thoughts of budget sets, tweaking your instrument or "cobbling" together various parts of pipes ...
- Wed Mar 27, 2024 4:44 am
- Forum: The Chiff and Fipple Whistle Forum
- Topic: Is Alba still selling whistles?
- Replies: 14
- Views: 746
Re: Is Alba still selling whistles?
I will mention that the various Alba whistles I've owned sometimes have unusual bore sizes compared to most other makers. Most makers use their Low D whistle tubing (usually around 22mm ID) for their Low C, in other words the Low C is simply a stretched Low D. Colin Goldie, Reviol, and other makers ...
- Wed Mar 27, 2024 4:26 am
- Forum: The Chiff and Fipple Whistle Forum
- Topic: Is Alba still selling whistles?
- Replies: 14
- Views: 746
Re: Is Alba still selling whistles?
I bought an Alto G from Alba in early January this year. That's good to hear. If you wouldn't mind, could you measure the ID of your Alto G? I have a chart of whistle bores from various makers but no Alba mezzo/alto G yet. So far I have mezzo G Freeman (brass tube) 15mm mezzo G Freeman (alloy tube)...
- Tue Mar 26, 2024 4:35 am
- Forum: The Chiff and Fipple Whistle Forum
- Topic: New Double-Whistle Idea
- Replies: 24
- Views: 956
Re: New Double-Whistle Idea
The Bulgarian flute (Kaval) uses an entirely different way to be chromatic. The Bulgarian bagpipes, like the various Mediaeval and Renaissance woodwinds, have a basic diatonic scale. The Bulgarian pipe makers came up with the mormorka, Baroque woodwind makers narrowed the bore and holes and came up ...
- Tue Mar 26, 2024 4:13 am
- Forum: The Chiff and Fipple Whistle Forum
- Topic: Is Alba still selling whistles?
- Replies: 14
- Views: 746
Re: Is Alba still selling whistles?
I emailed Stacey a while back asking if she was still making Bass whistles and she said she was.
I didn't inquire about smaller whistles.
I have, by the way, three emails for her
pictx@me.com (I think this is the most recent)
albawhistles@aol.com
info@albawhistles.com
I didn't inquire about smaller whistles.
I have, by the way, three emails for her
pictx@me.com (I think this is the most recent)
albawhistles@aol.com
info@albawhistles.com