Brand new in November 2018. Barely touched. I want to stick with NSP.
Beautiful set. Green bag which I decorated w black n silver Celtic ribbon.
Fully reeded. Each drone has an individual shut off.
No case.
Cost $2600, shipping extra.
This is his only set to date with drones which will play in D or E, via slide.
I’d like $2,300, shipping included within the contiguous U.S. buyers elsewhere, we’ll talk.
Don’t know how to post photos - photo sent upon request.
You can upload photos to the free image hosting site https://imgbb.com/
Once you upload the photos, they provide code that you can copy and post to this type of forum.
Thanks for asking.
It’s by Carbony. Carbony Celtic Winds. Rob Gandara.
Corvalis, Oregon.
More information is available at carbony.com.
Sorry, I thought they were famous enough with their whistles and flutes and such.
They did only recently begin making UP half sets, though, (and of course prices are only going to increase) so good call.
I’m not sure a sound file from me would be great - I really don’t play.
Perhaps Carbony can provide one upon request.
Wow. Not misleading at all. Materials and other costs only increase. I’m sure Rob will do so before long.
I really wouldn’t call this a budget set, either. I’ve seen several. This is higher quality, fwiw.
Maybe, but we’re not talking production costs, we’re talking prices. If the instrument won’t sell at $2600, the price will fall. You demonstrated this yourself by dropping your asking price to $2300.
Seriously now, plastic and extruded stainless steel are not high quality products.
Not sure what is wrong with my photo, sorry.
There are more photos at Carbony.com if you are interested.
I would say that these are a Basic set, but I’d never call them “Budget” - I’ve owned four budget sets and they were much lower quality compared to this.
And I wouldn’t call Carbon Fiber “plastic” - though an engineer might, that term is misleading when it comes to CF - a much stronger and more durable material than the average plastic.
But thanks for all the chatter - great publicity!
More information from the maker, which I am permitted to post:
They arent plastic. They have the density and fiber structure of African blackwood.
Plastic wouldn’t hold steel, it contracts too much. They arent that basic either, the chanter is based on a Rowsome recommended by Tommy Martin and the pipers society in dublin. The bass drone has a three bore core that was common with Taylor sets in the late 19th century.
Pretty much every concert pitch chanter is based on a Rowsome chanter, so saying that this fact implies that “They arent that basic either,” is just silly. Are you implying Tommy Martin and NPU recommended a particular Rowsome chanter to use as a model? Which one? Why? Says who?
What do you, or the maker, mean by “The bass drone has a three bore core”? Do you even know?
This is just shabby advertising quite frankly. Meaningless.
We really are a surly bunch,aren’t we .There should be a warning on the UP forum home page , Enter here at your own peril, beyond this point there be surliness .
Yes we are implying Tommy Martin and Gay McKeon (O’Flynn Rowsome set) from the pipers society provided detailed measurements for the mandrel that the chanter is molded from.
The plans for the drones are also based on a set featured in The Seán Reid Society Journal. Volume 3. 2009 3.11
3.11 A deluxe O’Mealy set of pipes measured by Bill Haneman
Take a photo of the tri-bore end and you can see the covered corks, it’s the same technique used in the 19th century realized in carbon fiber.
Also the stainless is 316, a nautical grade steel with a higher molybdenum content resulting with increased corrosion resistance.
