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Hi, I've a Patrick Hennelly chanter to reed. I assume that it is a Patrick Hennelly chanter because it's stamped PH and very much in the Taylor style. Anyone reeded a Hennelly chanter before and want to share the specs....
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But I don't think you even half realise how true to form, to my ears, both your original posting and on top of that your responses are. And that's exactly what, against my better judgement, prompted the response. You don't care about the nuance of it. My point exactly. The sentence that triggered y...

Ah yes, aggressive ill-conceived sarcasm, more than a whiff of begrudgery and a drop of ad-hominem. Wow 'begrudgery' had to look that one up... and some latin, 'ad-hominem' on top of that, impressive. Why do you think you achieved success or wealth and why do you think I care? But I'll stop with th...

NVUP celebrates 30 years of uilleann piping in The Netherlands Equating NVUP's anniversary to the anniversary of 'uilleann piping in the Netherlands' is a bit of a grand statement, isn't it? They hardly introduced it into the low countries. You're absolutely right Mr.Gumby the NVUP didn't introduce...

It's almost that time of the year again.... 30th Dutch Tionól Celebration! This year from the 19th to the 21st of September the NVUP celebrates 30 years of uilleann piping in The Netherlands. Over the years we've had many distinguished guests and we are lucky enough to be able to ask some of them ba...

Geoff Wooff full set in D for sale. I'm not the seller just passing on the message because the seller (Hille van der Heide) doesn't have the interweb thingy. The set probably need new reeds at least, I haven't seen the set in years and the current owner didn't play it much due to health problems, PM...

By 'symmetrical,' do you mean the thickness of the lips? Arbo p.s. My eyesight isn't what it used to be. So, what do people use to aid in thes manner. I don't know what a 'loupe' is. A loupe (pron.: /ˈluːp/ loop) is a simple, small magnification device used to see small details more closely. Unlike...

What often is overlooked are the tips of the lips of the reed, are they really symmetrical?
Take a jeweler's loupe and have a good look especially at the corners.
Sand till they are symmetrical and many problems can be cured including auto crans

Evertjan

BigDavy wrote:Evertjan 't Hart - for the first 29 seconds of the vid
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P0ITMFwZbvE
David

Here's more

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NqM1Wx5CWhQ

Evertjan 't Hart wrote:

Philipp wrote:Fancy pipes, but how do they sound?

I'll record something with a full set later

Cheers,
Evertjan

I was always to busy to record a full set but the Dutch national television asked me to play something so moving pictures included....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NqM1Wx5CWhQ

And I can identify with the tales of blue tack and wire, having had several desperate attempts to get a Tayloresque chanter in tune with itself at modern concert pitch. This might be true but it doesn't mean always that the chanter is to blame. I had a Williams chanter send to me to reed and there ...

I believe it was you, Pat, who once described the sound of pipes as "a bandsaw going through a duck". I don't think either phrase would describe this Taylor set: In 1998 Tommy McCarthy was over for the Dutch Tionol and he did bring his Taylor chanter. He was so kind to let me (and others)...

[quote='Cast' means melting brass (or another metal) till it's liquid and pour it in a mold of a key. Let it cool down again and 'voila' you have a key. Thanks for the explanation, I think that is much more difficult to make a perfect mold than to file and shape and get a perfect finish to a solder...

I`m sorry but I don`t understand the language about "cast" what it means? that you forge the keys? or that you shape them cutting and filing? Thanks 'Cast' means melting brass (or another metal) till it's liquid and pour it in a mold of a key. Let it cool down again and 'voila' you have a...