Californian Cane

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Californian Cane

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Hi, anyone know where I can pick up some Californian Cane? Time to make some new reeds and brush up on my skills, got some old Spanish Medir Cane still looks okay, but I need some new cane, who's the new kid on the block now a days for Cane? Any help most appreciated, got a couple of D Chanters and a C needing new reeds,,
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Is this supplier still going?

http://www.sampsoncane.com/

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Ted Anderson, maybe? http://www.piperssupply.com/index.htm

He used to post here as Ted, but hasn't dropped by for a few years.
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stew wrote:Hi, anyone know where I can pick up some Californian Cane? ,,
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Yeh! but no flights :cry: so need a more closer supplier, someone must have some tucked away somewhere :wink: Contacted both suppliers from above, cheers all,,
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Cheers guys, managed to contact Joseph at Samsoncane and my reed order is ready to ship to me, usually get Medir Spanish cane, but I'm going to give the Californian cane a go this time heard some good things about it..
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Hello to everyone,

Yes, I am still selling Californian cane from California... ha ha.

Hope you are all well and healthy during this time.
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Sampson Cane- California cane
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What kind of cane did makers like Rowsome and Egan use? Spanish or Californian?
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I have no idea about Egan. There is some correspondance somewhere on the web where Leo is praising some California cane he had gotten hold of. In fact he was soliciting more, and spoke of hoarding the supply he had.

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From Ted Anderson, An Piobaire X, Issue 1:
Dan made reeds with only a pocket knife for
a tool. His reeds looked crude but played beautifully.
He had a stack of letters from Leo Rowsome in which
Leo would ask for more cane. Dan had lots of cane
stuck up in the rafters and all over his garage. He would
only send Leo about a shoe box full of tubes at a time.
He said Leo would not have written to him as often if
he sent a larger supply
Egan would probably have access to Californian Cane when he arrived in the states. I imagine the drone reeds would have been elder. I have cane reeds in mine at the minute and they're very strident, equal to wide bore pipes. Perhaps the other reeds were elder too?

Craig Fischer has an interesting article on the Sean Reid Society about finding an original Coyne reed.
http://seanreidsociety.org/SRSJ1/South% ... 0hoard.PDF
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It's an interesting idea about Egan, but with little (zero?) evidence...and not likely to be any.

Arundo Donax was appararently a relative latecomer to California (first qtr of the 1800's ?) and that was for agricultural purposes.

So weigh up the likelihood that Egan who would have had access to the ports of New York, where one presumes
the same sort of imports from Spain and France packaged up in cane would have been available as were in Liverpool - and that that was a cane he
was likely used to - versus the idea of having a contact, in what was still the "wild west", harvesting for him (when they were more likely chasing gold) and
then shipping on the long sea journey to NY (I can't conceive anyone in their right mind transporting cane back east, overland, in those days....)...

Not impossible. Just improbable methinks.
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