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I just can't explain it. I don't know what these guys are doing to their pipes! I don't take any special care of my pipes, just commonsense stuff like don't leave them sitting in the hot sun. In general, wood cracks when it drys out. Some possibilities include: you play more than they do, you play ...

All kidding aside, for those who are interested, based on my discussions with Rob, here's the process for making CF whistles. First, he machines a steel rod that equals the bore. Then he puts the CF material and the resin on the steel mold and bakes it. After baking, he removes the body, drills it, ...

MadmanWithaWhistle wrote:Never heard of a "ribbon mic." Sounds cool though!

They use a pleated aluminum ribbon. You can find instructions to build them from scratch without any exotic tools. An interesting fact about ribbon mics is they are all figure 8 by design.

I don't doubt they're good whistles, but I don't see the value in carbon fiber. For me the selling feature of the material is that the thermal coefficient of expansion is effectively zero. So for a wind instrument that means that the pitch doesn't change with temperature. The head is aluminum, so t...

1. Are there good books or on-line resources for beginner smallpipers (with material specific to the SSP) or do raw beginners typically look to GHB books and tutorials and somehow adapt this to the SSP? All of the people I know who play Scottish Smallpipe played GHB first. There's no reason you can...

What kind of shaping?

AFAIK, and I have looked, there are no pedals that work with microphone level signals.

The traditional method for controlling volume is to set the mic up for the loudest volume, and then move away from it to get quieter.

Which Aston Mics are you using? I've considered buying a Zoom H6 for recording flute, but haven't gotten around to it. I was thinking of buying one and maybe an SM57 (I just haven't gotten around to buying anything). The XY mics on the H4/5/6 are wonky in the high end. If you get an H5/6, get a mic...

I typically use the voice memo app because it's easy and the quality is pretty good. For more options, the Voice Recorder Pro app is great. You can specify some file format options, and you can export (cloud & wifi) and/or email the recordings. For a bit of money, you can buy a Shure MV88 microp...

Sonic Visualizer is the tool you need. http://www.sonicvisualiser.org/ It's really cool, and open source. The biggest difference in bows is resonance. That might be tough to spot in a visual analysis. Be aware that unless you have an acoustically treated room that very minor differences in position ...

You need a USB interface with four or more microphone preamps. I use the Focusrite 18i8 but there are others. I picked the Focusrite primarily on the strength of the reviews of the stability of the Windows drivers, which obviously isn't an issue for you. You could probably get a Tascam us-800 on eba...

If you want this as an audio analysis tool, in order to see a visual representation of the music, then I highly recommend Sonic Visualizer: http://www.sonicvisualiser.org/ Available for OSX, Windows, and Linux. If you're really stuck on a 31 band representation (a bar graph), and if you have a smart...

Hi Highland-Piper, Thanks for that information. The BP gauges are considerably cheaper than industrial pressure gauges as you stated. What did you do to prepare it for use? I'm assuming you just cut of the rubber tube where it goes into the cuff and that free end then goes onto one of your drones. ...

Hello there folks, My celtic folk, steampunk, time traveling duo is booked for DragonCon this year and we need to design new merchandise quickly! My HD player, Victoria, is also our graphic designer and she's having no luck getting a vectorized black and white graphic of a whistle. We need it for r...

I'd start with simple tunes you know then, and figure out how to ornament them.

You can learn all the technique in the world and never learn how to make music, but if you learn to make music you will necessarily learn technique along the way.

But trying to copy specific points of ornamentation in this way just isn't how the process of aural transmission has ever worked. So taking this particular case, if you were going to play it with someone playing it on harp exactly as the recording, do you have any advice for how to approach that pa...