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- Thu Jan 18, 2024 2:38 pm
- Forum: The Chiff and Fipple Whistle Forum
- Topic: Frequency in a square tube
- Replies: 13
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Re: Frequency in a square tube
My hunch is that a square tube would have a *slightly* lower pitch. How much lower, I do not know. Another hunch: the difference might be so small that fancy lab gear would be needed to measure it I think your hunches could be right. I made an uilleann "C" chanter with a square bore based...
- Sat Oct 22, 2022 1:45 pm
- Forum: Uilleann Pipe forum
- Topic: "Typical" Way of Playing?
- Replies: 39
- Views: 11447
Re: "Typical" Way of Playing?
When this thread started back in 2013 the talk was about playing the pipes standing up. A year or two after that I made me a "uilleann" chanter that I can play sitting, standing or walking about. https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52444506410_c456b10469_w.jpg The bottom centimetre or two ...
- Sun Oct 16, 2022 12:13 pm
- Forum: Uilleann Pipe forum
- Topic: Pictures of Your Pipes
- Replies: 2202
- Views: 1270307
Re: Pictures of Your Pipes
Looks like a nice set Rick. Hope the restoration goes well.
- Sat Sep 10, 2022 1:32 pm
- Forum: Uilleann Pipe forum
- Topic: The Piper's Despair (D M Quinn)
- Replies: 7
- Views: 2758
Re: The Piper's Despair (D M Quinn)
Hi Red, I'm glad you've got a contact for the book. I've seen a copy and I think there's stuff in there that you won't find anywhere else. By the way, I hope you don't mind me sayin' but that sure is some "nom de plume" you've got there. I don't know whether to be impressed or downright sc...
- Wed Aug 31, 2022 7:33 am
- Forum: Traditional String Instruments
- Topic: ISI Aceto Violin Neck Strap
- Replies: 2
- Views: 5370
Re: ISI Aceto Violin Neck Strap
Hi E=Fb. Welcome to the Forum. I haven't used the product in question although I have used a neck sling. The ISI Aceto looks nifty but my guess is that it might not suit everybody's setup. The idea seems to depend on the chin rest clamp being absolutely secure and I'm not sure I would trust mine. In...
- Tue Jul 05, 2022 1:05 am
- Forum: Uilleann Pipe forum
- Topic: Ebay Items
- Replies: 1850
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Re: Ebay Items
Howard half set https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/334490651303 ... SwyNtivyg9 Can anyone confirm if this is genuine? Headline information says item is in Sheffield, description says Bakewell, Derbyshire, which might suggest the description was cut and pasted from another listing. The Ebay address may be b...
- Fri Dec 24, 2021 10:33 am
- Forum: Traditional String Instruments
- Topic: 5-string banjo players - Irish music
- Replies: 6
- Views: 12320
Re: 5-string banjo players - Irish music
For something unusual, listen to "Irish Washerwoman" by Pete Roberts (Pete Kuykendall) on "American Banjo: 3 Finger & Scruggs Style". Its in the Library of Congress Folkways Catalog where you can buy an MP3 of it. Pete slows the jig down to waltz tempo while throwing in a ton...
- Tue Dec 07, 2021 12:47 pm
- Forum: Uilleann Pipe forum
- Topic: Regulator Key Shape
- Replies: 17
- Views: 5569
Re: Regulator Key Shape
Thanks for the good advice Rory. But the pipes have ended up in water rather than fire. My old uncle Murdo McMurdoch phoned me the other day and while we were talking I had an idea. When we were kids we used to play down at his spread. There was a old mine shaft in the side of a hill. We weren't sup...
- Mon Dec 06, 2021 5:18 am
- Forum: Uilleann Pipe forum
- Topic: Regulator Key Shape
- Replies: 17
- Views: 5569
Re: Regulator Key Shape
An interesting story, Rory. It got me thinking. In fact it's got me worried. D'ye think other sets of pipes could be cursed? The thing is, I've got this old set of pipes. Had them for years. They've brought me nothing but bad luck. I can never get them in tune anyway. My friends and neighbors, espec...
- Wed Sep 15, 2021 12:01 pm
- Forum: Uilleann Pipe forum
- Topic: Contrabass regulators
- Replies: 44
- Views: 10689
Re: Contrabass regulators
Thanks for correcting my error Mr. Gumby. Sorry if I confused the matter.
- Wed Sep 15, 2021 9:30 am
- Forum: Uilleann Pipe forum
- Topic: Contrabass regulators
- Replies: 44
- Views: 10689
Re: Contrabass regulators
In the first video the bass reg has a "normal" reed cap and the extra high reg is next to the tenor. In the second video the bass reg looks to be fed by the trombone thing and the high reg doesn't seem to be there but presumably it could be fitted into the other end of the trombone.
- Mon Aug 23, 2021 1:55 am
- Forum: Uilleann Pipe forum
- Topic: Reedmaking and tone.
- Replies: 17
- Views: 9985
Re: Reedmaking and tone.
I recall talking about that haunting dark, broad, round, woody timbre Séamus Ennis’s chanter had when it was in his possession, Someone once told me that my particular chanter/reed combination at that time sounded "woody". I don't think it was meant as a compliment. My guess is that said ...
- Mon Jul 19, 2021 1:19 am
- Forum: Uilleann Pipe forum
- Topic: Leo Rowsome's personal set
- Replies: 21
- Views: 8507
Re: Leo Rowsome's personal set
I don't think the A440 thing in 1939 was that much of a big bang moment for music (e.g. "OMG I've got got to start making bigger reeds NOW!") because A439 (not much difference) had already been around for a long time, as a rival "platform" if you like to the high pitch. And it to...
- Fri Jun 11, 2021 12:42 am
- Forum: Uilleann Pipe forum
- Topic: Crowley set in G&H auction
- Replies: 16
- Views: 9155
Re: Crowley set in G&H auction
I've seen a photo of a single-bladed oboe reed. It looked like a slimmed-down version of a clarinet mouth piece. Presumably it works.
- Tue Apr 13, 2021 12:52 pm
- Forum: Non-Uilleann Piping
- Topic: How to leard to blow the bag
- Replies: 195
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Re: How to leard to blow the bag
Thanks for the information Glenarley. I'll be interested to see the results of your proposed UP drone research.