I would go back and delete some of my earlier posts in this thread if I could.
Because for Christmas I got something I needed- a quality high-tech metric caliper. I re-measured my Goldie headjoints and found my earlier measurments (or the math I did converting inches to mm) were wrong. My old calipers weren't fine enough to get inside the windway, so I held the caliper at the end of the windway and eye-balled it.
Now I have something fine enough to put inside the windway.
So, I found the windway heights do correspond to normal Goldie specs as would be expected.
The D head is .8mm which is his hard blower.
The C head is 1mm which is his very soft/very easy blower.
So my two Goldie heads represent the extremes of the Goldie range. I've always wondered what all of the "hard blower" "soft blower" talk was about, now I know.
My impression, switching back and forth, is that it's not so much about them blowing harder or softer, but having different playing characteristics in other ways, ease and nimbleness of the 2nd octave, Bottom D power, timbre, etc.
_________________ Richard Cook 1978 Quinn uilleann pipes 1945 Starck Highland pipes Goldie Low D whistle
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