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Sillysausage1968 wrote: ↑Wed Oct 19, 2022 10:51 am

rorybbellows wrote: ↑Wed Oct 19, 2022 9:49 am

Sillysausage1968 wrote: ↑Wed Oct 19, 2022 9:30 am..it requires a bag and bellows made with excellence to achieve the technique.... but they have been thin on the ground for sometime....

Would you have any recommendations where to get a suitable bag and bellows.
RORY

I would indeed...

You know, I had a funny feeling you might.
RORY

I don't know Sillysausage, you might end up looking like this and some people would think you're better at playing the pink oboe than you are the uilleann pipes.

RORY

Sillysausage1968 wrote: ↑Wed Oct 19, 2022 9:30 am..it requires a bag and bellows made with excellence to achieve the technique.... but they have been thin on the ground for sometime....

Would you have any recommendations where to get a suitable bag and bellows.
RORY

Decreasing pressure would be problematic.
RORY

How do you control the octaves with the bellows?
RORY

You're welcome, always good to have new members on the forum. Looking forward to your contributions.
RORY

Hi Sillysausage1968, welcome to the forum. You're doing the what now?
RORY

Happens to the greatest, Liam going pretty much hell for leather in this clip. Doesn't take much, a wonky valve or a loosening joint and you are using the bellows like a compressor
https://youtu.be/tsPcjlmnp1U
RORY

Maybe a deliberate use of hyperbole to encourage pipers to set up their pipes properly.
RORY

As mentioned over on the other thread, Leo Rowsome reckoned that It should be possible to play a tune with the bellows disconnected. Anyone out there ever put it to the test and if you have done it, what pitch set and what tune. I'd be skeptical it could be done with a wide bore chanter.
RORY

Shame you didn't join the thread a little earlier but I realised a few posts ago that I could be digging a hole for myself. You and I have been around this forum for long enough to know how these types of thread can go so with all due respect it would be better if it finished. RORY Ps nothing wrong ...

Yeah maybe, though none are raising the bar, imatators not innovators. None have that x factor that marks a maker above his contemporaries. But then again I'm probably being over critical, just my personal opinion.
RORY
Ps, I'll stop digging now.

First of all apologies to Ian for hijacking his thread we really should have moved the discussion to it's own thread. Secondly for me at least, its fantastic that pipemaking is really taken off in numbers and standard of manufacture. But Ronan's purchase reaffirms that the death knell is sounding fo...

geoff wooff wrote: ↑Mon Oct 03, 2022 4:46 am what news from the sleeper ( OP) ?

, excellent, top comment goes to Geoff.
RORY

A stuttering halt not a sudden one, anyway geez enough with the train metaphors it's getting confusing.
RORY