I recall talking about that haunting dark, broad, round, woody timbre Séamus Ennis’s chanter had when it was in his possession, especially with his Bottom D.
I also heard that similar, dark, Bottom D on other C# sets played by McAloon, Molard, Brian Vallely, and Tommy Reck with his Kenna B set.My C# chanter sounds pretty much as good as any C# in those recordings tone wise, the Bottom D has a much brighter ring to it though.
I know the chanter dimensions will play a bigger factor in tone, and I know this is probably an outlandish and absurd question, I am just very very intrigued to know how much I could “change” the tone of my chanter, by making different reeds for it, and if possible how I could do it? I’m assuming chanter behaviour can change at least somewhat?
Many thanks