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Good day Richard I too was a little sceptical when being told the sound was different and stronger when tubes were not fitted to the stocks and with my degenerative hearing loss, I am never really quite sure about what I am actually hearing. Luckily, the software has no such problems. I tied the sam...

Moisture Control Systems and Drones/Reeds With the canister moisture control system (cmcs) fitted the effectiveness was tested with respect to the moisture present in the drones using the same bags as used in the previous posts. Both the clay and desiccant systems gave similar results where after ab...

Moisture Control Canister Systems and Sheepies (b) -continued- While we do not support the superior sound from sheepies argument, what we discovered was that both the blind test pipers (played at grade 1 level) were able to reliably pick which bag had cmcs tubes attached to the drones by both sound ...

Moisture Control Canister Systems and Sheepies (a) We also tested drone reeds when testing the canister moisture control systems (cmcs) and because we had a sheepie with a zipper, for the first time we could test the operation of a sheepie with a cmcs. Sheepie proponents tout the sheepie as having a...

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Moisture Control Systems Again This is one of those issues that will not die a quiet death and I am continually receiving argumentative messages telling me “Their” Canister Moisture Control System (cmcs) works well at keeping "Their" reeds dry contrary to my prior posts. I am not going to ...

Reeds and Pitching Reeds to a Chanter I was sent these comments from a forum thread and because of how often I am asked about the points raised I will expand the issues. Question from piper1: Hi all. I am wondering what reeds are recommended these days for a poly mk2 chanter. I havent used it in a n...

There are no Bb Reeds, just Bb chanters I get a lot of requests for Bb reeds to suit Bb chanters and while I do provide reeds for Bb chanters, I don’t sell Bb reeds. The Bb pitch (466 Hz) is determined by the chanter, NOT the reed. Clearly the reed pitch has to suit the chanter and as no chanters ar...

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This thing just will not die a natural death Every week I am still getting emails from people (possibly shills) wanting to convince me that Tone Protector reed caps and the two other competing Humidi-Cap devices that were referenced to me, actually work as two-way nominal moisture control devices, a...

The Gouger The picture shows a severely gouged out chanter with epoxy being used to fill some of the damage and the orange circles showing where the original holes were located. https://i.imgur.com/Kq68uYN.jpg If I was the one that gouged this chanter, I would have disposed of it prior to anyone see...

Your drones never lie These words still echo in my mind as I remember the grumpy old tutor that seemed to do nothing but yell at us while learning to play the pipes, in hindsight, he was of course, right. As a reed maker, my biggest bug bear is from customers that order reeds without really knowing ...

Smooth and Slippery as a Charlatans Tongue At a recent piping competition, my boy had the drone tuner set his drones to the required band pitch, as is often the situation. This tuner was completely blown away with how smooth and effortlessly by boy’s pipe tenons could be adjusted and after the event...

You just can’t change science because you want to. Since my last post I have had a steady stream of pipers telling me the Tone Protector humidi cap is a wonderful device that works perfectly as stated by the manufacturer, contrary to my assertions in this thread and on you tube. I stand by my assert...