Purchased 2 years ago from pipemaker. Well taken care of with several sets of working reeds made by Brad and reed making supplies. PM if interested I can email pictures.
Brad makes amazing flat sets. Any pictures posted anywhere? Cheers.
Here’s some video: YouTube - Lark in the Morning - B set by Brad Angus. Not the original cane reeds in the drones, I believe, but brass/plastic jobs. Still sound pretty sweet for all that.
A friend of ours is working on a new souped up website for Brad. Should have much better pipe porn than at the one I put together for him way back when, nice full glossy spreads like this:
Big Davy’s Bb set. New site might have some footage as well, maybe something of yours truly. I’ll do it but want my face blurred out like on COPS. Will definitely have some sounds to listen to.
Hi Kevin
So you are the one responsible for my current avatar - nice picture
hope you don’t mind me using it, I will change it if you do.
Going by the craftsmanship on my Angus set, I don’t think any one buying the B set will be disappointed.
David
I dont know who took that pic - perhaps Morton, the 1st owner. It qualifies as public domain by now, I’d say.
I was in Portland the other day and played a recent D set and a B chanter by Brad and was positively astonished. When I picked up the flat chanter, I thought, “Wow. This is the nicest, most comfortable C chanter I have ever played. It almost feels like a D chanter!” When I was told it was actually a B chanter, I was floored. I have no idea how Brad manages to make such a low pitched chanter so compact and playable (I have small hands, too), but it barely felt much bigger than my Lynch D chanter. Sounded fantastic, too. Simply amazing. The man is a genius. I may have to visit Brad next time I am in the Portland area.
Zac
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I sent you a pm inquiring about your set.. Did you not get it or did you change your mind about selling them?
Brad closely copies a very good Coyne B. Instead of moving holes around to get the correct pitch for the fingerholes, making it uncomfortable to play in the process, the old makers would voice the holes/make the body thicker or thinner/scoop out a bit of the bore here and there. The result would also mean the holes were uniform in size. Modern loud concert pitch chanters, like post-Nicholson English flutes, have a wide range of hole sizes to get various notes close to correct pitch, this being necessary owing to the limitations of the human hand. (Nicholson was an English flautist whose father was the first guy to make a flute with larger tone holes, which he obtained by performing surgery on a flute with small holes. Nicholson was the most influential flautist of his time and English flutes in his wake had larger holes than their counterparts built elsewhere. These are the “Irish” flutes which are popular now; they became popular in Ireland on account of being available, players of classical or semi-classical music having abandoned the old simple system models in favor of systems with uniform huge holes like Boehm’s, or various other systems popular in the UK of that time)
I don’t have pictures posted anywhere online, but I can email them to interested parties. Just drop me a pm. I suppose I could try to figure out image hosting, but I spend too much time on a computer for work so I don’t tend to recreate on one.