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The set is in slightly sharp of B ( 20 cents).

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Hello. experts, I have refurbished a set of pipes, made by Thomas Scott in about 1810, having belonged to Hans Jörg Podworny, which was subject of several topics here. It bears the inscription SCOTUS FECIT RUSOVIUS REFECIT on the mainstock below the bass regulator bar. ("Scott made, Rusovius re...

[Thread revival. - Mod] Now look what has become of this set. Hans-Jörg passed away last year and, having remembered my interest in it on a visit gave it to me. Great honour indeed. I tried to do it just and refurbished it carefully. A report may be read in https://www.kannmachmusik.de/english/iris...

The soft reed in a equal - holed chanter leads to the historical baroque/early classic approach of piping, for which these chanters have been built basically. "Music of the gentlemen Pipers". Then all kind of music was softer and rather more expressive than powerful. A soft reed makes the ...

You have to take in account that Ennis played an early 19th century Coyne set, which in this period demanded another fingering than today, as shown in the contemporary Colclough and O'Farrel tutors. There was no modern closed fingering lower f sharp, only the open fingering version was allowed. Uppe...

All these advices accord to my experiences as well. If bottom d is warbling, and you have a reed with a fairly stiff thumb d, you may also try to insert a piece of wire - two inches long - inside the throat of the chanter. Give it a snake - like shape and stick the snake inside the reed staple, but ...