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- Mon Apr 08, 2024 10:22 am
- Forum: Non-Uilleann Piping
- Topic: How to leard to blow the bag
- Replies: 200
- Views: 175299
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: 700
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: 22
- Views: 2434
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: 15
- Views: 2316
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: 21
- Views: 2469
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: 15
- Views: 2316
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: 15
- Views: 2316
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: 2609
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: 15
- Views: 2316
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
- Mon Mar 25, 2024 5:29 am
- Forum: The Chiff and Fipple Whistle Forum
- Topic: New Double-Whistle Idea
- Replies: 24
- Views: 2609
Re: New Double-Whistle Idea
Some Eastern European bagpipe genius came up with this hundreds, perhaps a thousand, years ago. The upper-hand index finger's hole isn't a normal note-hole like the others, but has a long extremely narrow bore. Somehow (I don't know if anybody understands the physic at work) opening that tiny deep h...
- Sat Mar 23, 2024 6:31 pm
- Forum: The Chiff and Fipple Whistle Forum
- Topic: New Double-Whistle Idea
- Replies: 24
- Views: 2609
Re: New Double-Whistle Idea
The Hungarian chanter has what on the Bulgarian bagpipes is called the mormorka (I don't know the Hungarian name for it) which is operated by the upper-hand index finger. On Bulgarian gaidi opening this hole raises the pitch of any note below it by a semitone; in other words it transforms a diatonic...
- Fri Mar 22, 2024 4:44 pm
- Forum: The Chiff and Fipple Whistle Forum
- Topic: New Double-Whistle Idea
- Replies: 24
- Views: 2609
Re: New Double-Whistle Idea
I would have to see a diagramme, I'm having a hard time visualising it. What does exist in the bagpipe world, scattered across several Eastern European countries, is a double-chanter setup with "counterdrone". Bored in the same piece of wood is the normal chanter fingered in the normal way...
- Tue Mar 05, 2024 11:58 am
- Forum: The Chiff and Fipple Whistle Forum
- Topic: Tuning Slide Revolution?
- Replies: 12
- Views: 1175
Re: Tuning Slide Revolution?
Thanks! I couldn't get anywhere.Wanderer wrote: ↑Tue Mar 05, 2024 8:39 am
https://ppubs.uspto.gov/dirsearch-publi ... df/1103462
Should be a direct link to the patent's PDF.
- Tue Mar 05, 2024 11:54 am
- Forum: The Chiff and Fipple Whistle Forum
- Topic: Tuning Slide Revolution?
- Replies: 12
- Views: 1175
Re: Tuning Slide Revolution?
Here's some pics showing how it works (not the best images, I found these online prior to seeing Wanderer's post)
- Tue Mar 05, 2024 3:52 am
- Forum: The Chiff and Fipple Whistle Forum
- Topic: Tuning Slide Revolution?
- Replies: 12
- Views: 1175
Re: Tuning Slide Revolution?
I tried to look up the Patent but evidently it's quite a process. When I googled 'nicholas alberti flute" what came up was a Piccolo he made with his Patent double-tube system, from the Dayton Miller Collection in the Library of Congress. I wonder what happened to the flute?? https://www.loc.go...