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Hi Uilliam It is a practice chanter for a 4 keyed Irish System Brian Boru Pipe The fingering of these does not suit the dedicated highland piper as all the fingers are moved down a note to leave the bottom hand pinky free to operate the lower extension keys. This also leaves a problem at the top as ...

Website address is http://www.carrolluilleannpipes.co.uk/ and it seems to be working OK

From the full patent description the drones are similar in design to those of the Brian Boru Pipes being tenor, baritone and bass bb - f - Bb , but with the added facility of the valves which could be opened to raise the pitch by a whole tone to c - g - C when required. The Patent is NOT a scale dra...

They are sprung valves to open a vent and give a tone above the normal drone tuning.

Chris

The fingering chart and layout of the full Meagher chanter from the original patent Chris Description from ChasR's post Improvement in bagpipes. - United Kingdom Patent GB136437 Inventor- Meagher Edward Joseph Assignee-Meagher Edward Joseph IPC, G10D 07/06, G10D 07/00, GB136437 is referenced by 1 pa...

Has anyone had occasion to try Redwood drone reeds? Hopefully they will be at one of the French festivals, Chateau d'Ars (July), Boulegan (Easter) or more likely Lorient (August) and if so will see if I can try a set. Will post on the French UP forum and see if anyone has tried them Some find compo...

As MTGuru has already been mentioned ideas circulate and come back time and again sometimes with variations. The Patent Office has a number of Patents pertaining to "Improvements to Bagpipes" but these are mostly to the GHB and include plastic (vulcanite) reeds, 'O' rings instead of hemp f...

To put things into perspective - in 36 years of making pipes I have had one half set and one practice set go missing in the post and both went overseas and vanished without trace once they had arried on the continent and this was over 10 years ago and one where the case was damaged about five years ...

Hi Martin As it is a set of mine better answer :D I wrap very well and go for the full overkill which can include using the preformed lagging for home water pipes as well as bubble wrap. Neither the Post Office or a Courier service will treat them gently and have even heavy duty cases cracked in tra...

Technically the wrong forum section for this although it is an Irish Bagpipe being based on one invented/patented by Edward Joseph Meagher of Cork 1919 Meagher style chanter, simple pattern with just the speaker key http://i1122.photobucket.com/albums/l529/ChristopherBayley/th_IMG_0122s.jpg http://i...

Marc Guilloux, Paris Pipers Club may know what happened to his equipment and whereabouts of at least some of his sets

It will depend how your pipes are set up. I tried a set of these over the weekend at the Chateau d'Ars (was St Chartier) in Mike Hulmes pipes (light setup) and they worked fine both in his normal set and also a barrel drone set The Half set has separate bores for each drone and the barrel a common a...

Full set of my Concert D pipes without exposing the reeds comes down to 560mm long with removal of Bass drone top, Baritone drone top, Bass drone tuning Tenon and Bass regulator (held by two locking cams rather than the more usual dovetail slide). Taylor style bass regulator with folded seperator do...

they were (are) unique three clapper, wood & leather setup, the inlet (if i recll corectly) was on the waist side rather then the elbow side; the actual intake pointing backwards away from the hinge. http://www.cabrette.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=11:fabriquer-un-so...

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Chris