Identify this chanter
Posted: Wed Sep 09, 2020 12:49 pm
Hello,
I was hoping someone would be to help me identify this chanter.
A friend of mine purchased this half set for $200 from the a friend of a friend of a friend of a friend (or something like that). Nothing is known about the set. Upon opening the case it was obvious immediately that the half set was Pakistani. I did what I could for the drones, rewrapped some joints etc. It's rough.
Now the twist...
The chanter barely played at first. I removed the cheap Pakistani reed and popped in an old Kirk Lynch reed I had laying around. To my astonishment it played amazingly. The chanter is crisp, snappy and almost perfectly in tune in both octaves. I just can't accept that it is a cheap chanter. If it is, he is the luckiest SOB I have ever met. Does anyone have any thoughts? Thanks!
Here is a link to the files. I couldn't figure out how to embed. Sorry!
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/ ... sp=sharing
I was hoping someone would be to help me identify this chanter.
A friend of mine purchased this half set for $200 from the a friend of a friend of a friend of a friend (or something like that). Nothing is known about the set. Upon opening the case it was obvious immediately that the half set was Pakistani. I did what I could for the drones, rewrapped some joints etc. It's rough.
Now the twist...
The chanter barely played at first. I removed the cheap Pakistani reed and popped in an old Kirk Lynch reed I had laying around. To my astonishment it played amazingly. The chanter is crisp, snappy and almost perfectly in tune in both octaves. I just can't accept that it is a cheap chanter. If it is, he is the luckiest SOB I have ever met. Does anyone have any thoughts? Thanks!
Here is a link to the files. I couldn't figure out how to embed. Sorry!
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/ ... sp=sharing