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Hello, I’m wondering if anyone can give a first-hand description of a Tilbury aluminum high D? I’ve tried to look back through past discussions, but have only found limited info - I’m especially curious about how others might characterize the sound and back pressure? (Although I understand that writ...

Thank you, Peter - I was hoping to get your opinion specifically and I really appreciate your thoughts on this. Everything you said about the chanter design makes sense, and your final thoughts are especially pertinent... I briefly owned a set of SSPs in A, and for some reason, I just didn’t like th...

Hello Peter, Thank you for your reply. Did you happen to see the video of the high F Hummelchen that I linked to in my first post? I’m really curious how a SSP style chanter in high F would differ from this Hummelchen in high F (besides the SSP chanter having the tone below, which I would have thoug...

Hello, I don’t know if anyone will see this follow-up to this old post I started, but I went back today and reread this (as I’m getting closer to ordering my elusive dream set of pipes...), and I wanted to ask Michael specifically why it would be that, in his final post, the tone range on a SSP styl...

Hello Michael! As you have read, I’m an amateur so please forgive my awkward questions to come, but do I understand you correctly that although the Sopranino Hummelchen in this chanter design really isn’t suitable for Scottish music, would a Hummelchen chanter in C, or most pertinently A or D, be be...

Hello! I’m a passionate whistler who is getting very serious about ordering my first set of pipes, and although I absolutely love GHBs and Scottish smallpipes, and I’d be thrilled to squeeze a set of Uilleann pipes, I’ve been feeling called to other types of pipes and I’ve been looking closely at th...