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Yep, I was fortunate to have a few tunes with Steph at the weekend and the launch is on next Sunday in Ennis at, I think 5pm, in the Sanctuary (next to Cruise’s). Beautiful playing and great choice of tune settings.

Edit: you beat me to it Peter!

The tone will depend a lot more on the person playing it than the flute. There are lots and lots of trad players playing Grinter flutes in their own ways (from Kevin Crawford to Aoife Granville). For what it’s worth I find mine to be slightly more solid, with slightly fewer harmonics, than my other ...

I also have one of Tony’s keyless F flutes. It’s my go to flute for learning tunes at home. I tried a few when he had a festival stall a few years (I think he was more focused on . They felt a little bit varied but the one I chose plays really nicely for me.

yep, you're over thinking this one but O'Farrell says... ...the chanter must there rest on the knee, and for that purpose it would be requisite to provide a small piece of white leather to place on the knee, under the chanter as nothing else will stop the wind so well. 'White leather' refers to alde...

The relevant clip from the film is also on YouTube
https://youtu.be/iGhM6MueWbE

Just on the offchance, bump...

When I searched back on the forums I found these. They’d have been just the job. I wonder if they ever found a new home.
viewtopic.php?f=36&t=97490&p=1139170&hi ... r#p1139170

Thanks, I don’t think he’s had any difficulty getting in contact by various methods over a period of years but he doesn’t always find communication easy so, if there aren’t any known reasons for delays, I might try asking on his behalf .

I’m sure there’s a logical explanation, he’s probably being too polite

Hi, does anyone have recent experience of orders or communication from Windward (Forbes and Yola)? Asking for a friend, other methods have been exhausted it seems. Not sure what’s going on or if there are explanatory circumstances. Feel free to message me

rorybbellows wrote:I have never heard any thing good about Kennedy pipes, I wonder why he chose to copy one ?

RORY

Which Kennedy are we talking about?

Thanks Peter, I was sure you'd know . I watched his TG4 documentary again last night, he made such an impression on all who knew him. [edit: the disappearing thread...]

Hi, long shot here but I wonder if anyone has surplus tenor or baritone regs they might like to sell or lend while I'm on a waiting list for mine. I found an old Ginsberg stock that is drilled for two regs, and the drones work well with the narrow D chanter. I'd have to check the hole diameters but ...

Indeed, he'd almost make music of anything he put his hand on, and such taste, timing and tuning in his playing. Blas. I guess he would be the last of that generation of the Tulla band too? RIP.

There is a 1987 narrow D full set currently for sale on the NPU classifieds
http://pipers.ie/classified/geoff-wooff ... ipes-in-d/