St Louis Tionol?

Tim Hall · Post by **Tim Hall** » Tue Mar 19, 2002 9:43 am

Has anyone been to the St. Louis tionol (coming up April 12-13 this year)? There's an academic conference in St. Louis I was thinking of attending the day before, so thought I might stop by. Would there be a chance for me to hear and perhaps try out some pipes, by way of market research?

Thanks in advance for any opinions

Tim

Kevin Popejoy · Post by **Kevin Popejoy** » Mon Mar 25, 2002 1:39 pm

Glandman · Post by **Glandman** » Tue Mar 26, 2002 10:43 pm

Good suggestion. Good luck getting to play others pipes, though. Many of us rarely, if ever, let others play our own instruments. An inexperienced player, and sometimes experienced ones, can wreck a reed for a while before it recovers by overdriving it with pressure. I've seen chanters at tionols crash to the floor when someone grabs by the chanter top with one hand and the wrap is not such that it will stay together gainst the pull of gravity...... wrecked reed resulted and I was surprised the chanter did not crack. Dangerous !

Patrick D'Arcy · Post by **Patrick D'Arcy** » Fri Mar 29, 2002 12:36 pm

While we're on the topic of St. Louis...

There are a couple of graet looking events happening there over the next few months:

Éigse 2002
http://www.umsl.edu/services/cis/ciswor ... _main.html

and
St. Louis Tionól - Mississippi River Celtic Music Festival
http://www.tionol.org/

Byee,

Patrick