Reed making - success vs failure

Joseph E. Smith · Post by **Joseph E. Smith** » Thu Apr 27, 2006 5:03 am

Pipewort wrote:
As you mentioned to someone else on this thread, "take loads of measurements and record them". I have been doing this for a while, and it is that that has got my reeds 'playing'. I now know what I have done, and can (try to) repeat it, as well as improve on it when things have worked.

Pipewort

I find it a very useful thing to keep good working measurements for various reed designs... in the event that I forget certain specs (like, all of the time really), I have a handy quick reference to back up my aging data base.

Also, I rarely toss any reed out. It may work well in another chanter. Eventually, its components can also be recycled.

Uilliam · Post by **Uilliam** » Fri Apr 28, 2006 7:07 am

My success rate is 100%...
I email AlanB or Andreas and they send me a reed.never been let down yet

Slán Go Foill
Uilliam

Joseph E. Smith · Post by **Joseph E. Smith** » Fri Apr 28, 2006 7:16 am

Uilliam · Post by **Uilliam** » Fri Apr 28, 2006 8:18 am

I'm gonna add Joseph to my list when I try one of his and if he doesn't lock me oot o the hoose too often

Slán Go Foill
Uilliam

Joseph E. Smith · Post by **Joseph E. Smith** » Fri Apr 28, 2006 8:30 am

Uilliam wrote:... and if he doesn't lock me oot o the hoose too often
Slán Go Foill
Uilliam

... you'll need to get yourself a master key. Oddly enough, that key in particular looks remarkably like a bottle of Jameson-1780. That'll open any of my locked doors around here.

Uilliam · Post by **Uilliam** » Fri Apr 28, 2006 10:46 am

This thread was/ has been utterly subjective and of little interest until now when it has become objective viz a viz Jameson 1780

Slán Agat
Uilliam

fancypiper · Post by **fancypiper** » Thu May 04, 2006 7:52 pm

My last few attempts were all absolute flops. That was when I had cataracts in both eyes.

Before that, my success rate was about 25%, after my first 60 failures....

Argh! I still have to reed the two D chanters I have and make two more drone reeds, as well as learning how to adjust phosphor bronze reg reeds or learn to make some Arundo Donax ones for my C set.