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Having played Irish flute, Irish whistle, and uilleann pipes for many years, and having arranged hundreds of pieces for these Irish trad instruments, I've got spoiled by the fact that on those instruments one can play any tune with all the correct notes in the correct octave. The Highland pipes, as ...

In Janice Dockendorff Boland's book, she cites Quantz as recommending the F# fingering x x x | o x x K Right, that's the sharper Baroque F# fingering. They were into all that enharmonic stuff then. I didn't go into that because the OP was talking about using a Baroque flute for Irish trad (which I ...

Here's an earlier thread where I explain my method. I've made great-playing in-tune whistles in C# and B natural this way. https://forums.chiffandfipple.com/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=113898 Cutting both ends only and you end up with the notes emitting from Hole 5 and Hole 6 being too flat, so these ha...

Whatever happened with Casey Burns' 3D printed flute project?

It was looking very promising, great-sounding lightweight flutes for a low price.

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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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...

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...

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...

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 ...

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 ...