Anyone have a Mopane chanter or other pipe parts?
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Anyone have a Mopane chanter or other pipe parts?
Hi all, Just curious. Does anyone one here have a chanter made from Mopane? There's been discussion about it on the flute forum. I'm aware of flutemakers using it, but not sure of any pipemakers. I don't think it's as ideal as some other woods for flutes, but it sounds like it might be really good for pipes.
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I have a mopane chanter and I am quite happy with it. Pictures of it are at Kirk Lynch's website (in the photos - chanters setion). www.kirklynch.com Kirk has made a few chanters from it recently and is pleased with the results also I believe.
The wood is a nice reddish brown that has deepened over the past year. It is a dense wood and is slightly heavier than my ebony chanter. The sound from it is full and even. Of course how much of the sound of a chanter is dependent on the reed alone versus the wood of the chanter is unknown (at least to me).
Contact Kirk, he can tell you more.
p.s my drones are from cocobolo and cherry and the mopane chanter while not as reddish as either of these woods does match them nicely.
jeff
The wood is a nice reddish brown that has deepened over the past year. It is a dense wood and is slightly heavier than my ebony chanter. The sound from it is full and even. Of course how much of the sound of a chanter is dependent on the reed alone versus the wood of the chanter is unknown (at least to me).
Contact Kirk, he can tell you more.
p.s my drones are from cocobolo and cherry and the mopane chanter while not as reddish as either of these woods does match them nicely.
jeff
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Mopane chanter in B. Regs are pearwood, drones boxwood. Maker Koehler & Quinn
(if photo is not showing for you, please let me know)
Edit note: I said Mopane, but the chanter is Ziricote.
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I haven't talked to him for a while, but I see he has a B chanter for sale on NPU. Last year, he had a half set of C. Roberts pipes which, as he said, "these drones are so strong...they're blowing the dust off the floor," and he was looking for a couple regs. Don't know what he has now...he's always coming in contact with other pipes it seems. His web site is still on. It was a shame he had to let those B pipes go, but he loves his kids and he had a lot of stuff/junk going on in his life last year.
I wish he'd show up here again, I thought he was a lot of fun. Maybe he's lurking...
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He had the B chanter with him, as one of our pipers was buying it from him. He played a few tunes on the other piper's set, and sat in a bit on whistle. He mentioned that he hadn't even played in a couple months due to a shoulder/arm injury. My first time meeting him actually, even though he's lived in the area for a while now. I'm not sure if he intends to take them up again. One of the guys there offered to loan him a practice set and he declined. Too bad, even with a couple months off, and playing a very winter affected set, he sounded good, had the regs going and everything.
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Re: Anyone have a Mopane chanter or other pipe parts?
Here's one:meemtp wrote:Hi all, Just curious. Does anyone one here have a chanter made from Mopane? There's been discussion about it on the flute forum. I'm aware of flutemakers using it, but not sure of any pipemakers. I don't think it's as ideal as some other woods for flutes, but it sounds like it might be really good for pipes.
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Tom was my very first Uilleann Pipe teacher. He is a good player, and a good person. The B chanter he is selling is from Bill Thomas, I had a chance to play it..it sounds real nice. A little bird told me that Tom might have Brad Angus, a good friend of his by the way, make him a narrow bore D chanter..Tom loves quiet sets. Kevin maybe you have more info on this rumor.
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Brad's known Tom K. for a long time, they used to hang out and make reeds and the like. Haven't heard about Brad turning him any new sticks but he has in the past.
I've played the Mopane set pictured above, it's Wally Charm's. Chanter wasn't happening, reed not doing it's thing that day, and the tone seemed rather muted. Tough to get the second octave going, and I noticed some of the holes had a bit of wax in them - but Wally said he'd be soon getting a replacement chanter anyway, gratis, as it was a prototype of sorts. Very lovely regs, beautifully balanced and very soft tone. The drones had brass/wood tongue reeds in them, which gave them a bit overly rattly tone. If you like that sound it would be just the thing, of course. I had my own concert set which has maple and elder reeds in the drones, which to my ear were much more pleasant sounding.
It's a very showy wood when freshly turned. Looks like a Satanic pinstripe suit or something. Not my thing, personally. Maybe with a nice black paint job.
It's hard to see in the above pic but the tubing bends of the bass drone are soldered onto discs which are soldered in turn to the ferrules, thus doing away with having the tubing sit inside the wood, which Dave doesn't like doing due to the potential of the wood splitting.
I've played the Mopane set pictured above, it's Wally Charm's. Chanter wasn't happening, reed not doing it's thing that day, and the tone seemed rather muted. Tough to get the second octave going, and I noticed some of the holes had a bit of wax in them - but Wally said he'd be soon getting a replacement chanter anyway, gratis, as it was a prototype of sorts. Very lovely regs, beautifully balanced and very soft tone. The drones had brass/wood tongue reeds in them, which gave them a bit overly rattly tone. If you like that sound it would be just the thing, of course. I had my own concert set which has maple and elder reeds in the drones, which to my ear were much more pleasant sounding.
It's a very showy wood when freshly turned. Looks like a Satanic pinstripe suit or something. Not my thing, personally. Maybe with a nice black paint job.
It's hard to see in the above pic but the tubing bends of the bass drone are soldered onto discs which are soldered in turn to the ferrules, thus doing away with having the tubing sit inside the wood, which Dave doesn't like doing due to the potential of the wood splitting.