Scott full set for sale
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I had a chanter with an e''' key, it also gave a much cleaner ghost d. Like what you get using the Eb key on a flute. You could do a semitone trill on the back D, if that floats your boat.
The seller still says on the description that it will be "Difficult" (sounds like Manuel on Fawlty Towers) to ship outside EU, but in the emails he says impossible. I'm not going to bother with this, nice though it'd be to own.
Here's what the bell of the chanter looks like, eccchhhh:
The seller still says on the description that it will be "Difficult" (sounds like Manuel on Fawlty Towers) to ship outside EU, but in the emails he says impossible. I'm not going to bother with this, nice though it'd be to own.
Here's what the bell of the chanter looks like, eccchhhh:
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Scott full set for sale
Hi,
just came back from a holyday (Sommermusikfest). I couldn´t attend the final two hours of the auction but I was the high bidder at that time. When I came back I switched into internet with trembling fingers and nearly burst. I MADE IT! I´m ful of joy and simply had to tell yous. I´m plannig to have the chanter filled and rereamed since it is "butchered" anyway, so that after the restauration the set will not only be a pleasure to look at but also to reed (and consequently to play). I will post pictures and a sound file in time. I can´t write more things now and will pay attention to the saying they have over here: "Don´t sell the bear´s skin before you got him" (Funny thing cause bears are long extinct in Germany).
Best
Hans
P. S.: Many thanks for the congratulations!
just came back from a holyday (Sommermusikfest). I couldn´t attend the final two hours of the auction but I was the high bidder at that time. When I came back I switched into internet with trembling fingers and nearly burst. I MADE IT! I´m ful of joy and simply had to tell yous. I´m plannig to have the chanter filled and rereamed since it is "butchered" anyway, so that after the restauration the set will not only be a pleasure to look at but also to reed (and consequently to play). I will post pictures and a sound file in time. I can´t write more things now and will pay attention to the saying they have over here: "Don´t sell the bear´s skin before you got him" (Funny thing cause bears are long extinct in Germany).
Best
Hans
P. S.: Many thanks for the congratulations!
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Scott full set for sale
Hi,
just wanted to let you know that the Sott has arrived. Of course, unpacking the parcel felt like on a child´s birthday. The chanter is c (or very close to). It has not been shortened. As the man I´m planning to have it restored by seems to be on holydays I can´t write you anything further about this so far.
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Hans
just wanted to let you know that the Sott has arrived. Of course, unpacking the parcel felt like on a child´s birthday. The chanter is c (or very close to). It has not been shortened. As the man I´m planning to have it restored by seems to be on holydays I can´t write you anything further about this so far.
Best
Hans
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Re: Scott full set for sale
HI Hans!Hans-Joerg wrote: I´m plannig to have the chanter filled and rereamed since it is "butchered" anyway, so that after the restauration the set will not only be a pleasure to look at but also to reed (and consequently to play). ...
I hesitate to tell you what to do with your new purchase, but I hope you reconsider the above plan. Even if/though the chanter has been thoroughly butchered, there may be bits of information to be gleaned from what's left. In cases where part of an instrument isn't restorable (and by "restore" I don't include irreversible changes), I think it's better to replace. It wouldn't take more effort IMO to replace the chanter outright than it would to fill/re-ream/etc., and the end result might be more musically satisfactory. The resemblance to the original, if the chanter is filled and rebored, would be only cosmetic anyhow.
I have some concerns that this kind of logic can be taken too far, too, though I don't accuse you of this kind of thinking, i.e. "the finger holes were enlarged, so I might as well get it re-bored" but it's a slippery slope. There's almost nothing left of Scott's work anyway, it would be a shame to lose even what fragmentary knowledge could be gleaned from an already-mistreated chanter.
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Bill
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Scott full set for sale
billh,
what you write makes sense to me. So, I think it is better to have it copied - including the odd c natural - and keep the original. The reason I wanted to have it rereamed was because I want a very well playable chanter but even rereaming might not guarantee this and you´re right: It would only be cosmetics anyway. The original - or what is left of it - will be kept.
An other question: Except for the bag and the bellows it is complete but as the chanter was hosed the chanter-head is missing. I would like a proper restauration have been done and therefore need some photoes of an original Scott hosed head. Does any of you by any chance know of someone who might have a Scott with an original head?
Best
Hans
what you write makes sense to me. So, I think it is better to have it copied - including the odd c natural - and keep the original. The reason I wanted to have it rereamed was because I want a very well playable chanter but even rereaming might not guarantee this and you´re right: It would only be cosmetics anyway. The original - or what is left of it - will be kept.
An other question: Except for the bag and the bellows it is complete but as the chanter was hosed the chanter-head is missing. I would like a proper restauration have been done and therefore need some photoes of an original Scott hosed head. Does any of you by any chance know of someone who might have a Scott with an original head?
Best
Hans