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It is a G drone. The reed seat is similar to the bass regulator separator. There is a cap on the end that functions as a switch. I added a clamp that makes the whole works more rugged. I got the idea of placing it on the stock from an arrangement I saw on another set - I believe it is Mick O'Brien's...

Buffalo Pipers are meeting today at 1pm at the Buffalo Irish Center. Jimmy Griffin memorial session.

Those sound samples are old recordings I did when I was playing a Seth Gallagher set. One in B and one concert pitch. Those sound samples have been up there for a long time. Here's an audio link to the Cocobolo chanter I put on eBay: http://www.audiostreet.net/artist.aspx?artistid=58367&mode=mus...

where you're from, how long you've been piping, pipemaking, who taught you, what your view on hand-rolled as opposed to hobby tube staples are From NE Ohio originally. Now reside in Western NY state. Playing pipes ten years. Learned the basics from Michael Kilbane in Cleveland, OH where I lived for...

I would call it Rowsome-esque, on the inside at least.

Whoever is selling this on ebay has also started this thread.. I am selling the chanter, and I did not start this thread. I know the person who did start the thread, and that person was just trying to be helpful. Now to the chanter - this is an opportunity for someone to own a very good chanter. It...

Add Kieran O'Hare to that list.

Reminds me of the instruction manual that came with my Chinese milling machine.

Aren't these two statements in direct opposition, in practice? I didn't intend them to be in direct opposition. What I meant was, somebody has to reed the pipes, be it the person who made them, or someone else. Not everyone is making pipes for a living, and if a machinist wants to make himself a se...

I just finished making a chanter. Had it not been for the knowledge I have of reed making, I probably would've thrown the chanter in the garbage. Perhaps the best lesson I have learned is that the pipe and the reed have an interdependent relationship. DM Quinn implies this in his book, "The Pip...

What is Benedict's slip length for the narrower approach?

.515" for the width is what David Quinn recommends in Pipers' Despair for his Rowsome pattern chanter. I was surprised by it too, but not that much. I had just read the bit about some wide heads and slender staples.

That's interesting. Benedict's blade width seems to be much narrower than I have been using, and the staple seems much longer.

What is the advantage of making a reed this way?

Thanks for the info.

Am I correct in assuming that the typical Rowsome reed has wider, shorter blades and a longer, narrower staple?

The set belonged to me at the time Brian recorded the CD. To my ear, the set sounds the best in a larger room, or a room with a high ceiling, etc. I was living with Brian in Chicago at the time when he recorded it. I was very taken by his version of the slow air Port Na Pbucai and by his playing of ...