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Hello Ian, after many years of quarreling, I tried a lot to find a material that retaines the spring effect. I've tried many different materials, even sheep's wool. This was the best after trying hemp, cotton each with bees wax and teflon tape before finally finding the only material that made sense...

Hi FlaminGalah, my experience (after about 40 years of reedmaking and tuning): 1. Check the size of the reed. Lenght, width at the tip, diameter of staple, opening of the eye. Mainly: is it the correct lenght for this chanter? I assume that your pipe maker once tuned it correctly. With an incorrect ...

Hello f#-players :-), in my opinion + based on my experience, this is to be seen in a more differentiated way. The f# in the upper octave - with the chanters I've ever played and tested - it was always absolutely necessary to play it closed, only f-finger open. That fits perfectly to fiddle and acco...

Hello everybody, I think that it could also be something completely different, based on my experience. I've had the same problem sometimes. First of all, I would check whether the bag is even tight: remove the chanter, cork it, inflate it with the bellows. The bag then has to stay as firm as a footb...

Hello friends, we had a lot of them in classes & sitting and talking on the Pipers Chair. As they told us: Mick builds his own things (had some discussions with him about staple regarding 2nd octave). Cillian does not. I had asked him about his drone reeds. He has a friend in the background. Pad...

Hi there,
this piece is possible and not too difficult also w/o keys. The Fnat will typically be played by a key but with practise also by fingering. The Bb would be played by cross fingering with a little help of shading. Limits only in pace.

gratulations!

A pressure wave from the prior opening of the reed reflects back from the far end of the bore. When it arrives back, the pressure inside the reed builds up, forcing the reed open again. I think, that's physically not likely. The frequency arises by a standing wave, not a moving wave. The standing a...

Thank you for posting, BigDavy, 10,000 times thanks for the 10,000 frames per second, very impressing. Confirmes my presumption per 100%. 1. reed closes by air flow 2. air flow stops 3. reed opens again by spring force of cane 4. air flow forces again to close by negative pressure inside the reed an...

Hello altogether, I've another thing in my mind which could bring a little light. Classical players sometimes say by experience that it is needed to practise about 10.000 hrs to be close to a pro. If we for a moment ignore the fix figure of 10.000 hrs I would guess that between 3 and 5000 hrs is the...

Dear Rory, dear all, I read this feed and reflected my way of learning. I have practised only some, many years, simply only played. New ornamentations I tried a few times, rarely practised correctly. Sometimes after trying they have not turned at once. I then have not played them for 14 days but aft...

this one: https://thesession.org/tunes/11678#setting11678

I'm also still happy although I do not play as often as when I got them. I once had a defect with the pressure sensor. I assumed my fault -after warranty time- but he repaired w/o costs. Great & friendly man in Spain. He constructed a genius instrument while implementing all aspects of the Uille...

Hi rglight, right order: 1st: Check the tuning of "a" or "g" in lower octave to 440 Hz. Probably the reed has become louder. That lowers the tuning, more the upper octave than the lower one and also flattens the back "d" a bit. So if too loud + flat shift the bridle a b...

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