Excellent stuff... what a legend. There is a lot more going on here than he is telling us about. Remember he has 50 years or more of reedmaking experience. He makes it look easy like he makes playing the pipes look easy.
Absolutely amazing! he didn`t take a single measurement, every thing is so natural; aside of this, I never saw that way to make the slip, nor even to soak the cane!!!
Hey guess what!!! my high G was always a "little" flat, on the edge to make me feel uncomfortable, tryed the hammer tuning system and problem solved. Can`t believe it. I`ve made every kind of reeds and every staple tweeking and nothing... and with a hammer tap... just amazing.
Edited to add that the wisdom and knowledge this man has is reflected in his simplicity.
ferris54 wrote:i liked the bit about the bag bursting covering everyone in fag ash, and the hells angels making his current bag from a harley saddlebag
I wonder if John Pederson was involved? Not a hells angel but you'd never know it to look at him
Finbar certainly gets some lovely sounds out of that chanter, that set has a sound of its own, I have a few of Finbar's early albums were his pipe playing is truly amazing, having good cane is the secret of good reeds as finbar says, but he's certainly shown me a few tricks. all the best.
hi all
thanks Davie,
great to hear him in such good form.
anyone know the name of the 1st. tune (slow air) at the start of Video #5.
And what make of chanter would you say he's playing on?.
yours un.
Robbie Hughes at a reedmaking class at the Belfast Tionol 2 years ago show me and others the Finbar Furey way of gouging shown on youtube.
I have not tried this way since that reedmaking Tionol because Robbie did the straight gouging at later Belfast Tionols.
I when back to straight gouging like Cillian Ó Briain or Andreas Rogge. I will give Finbars way a go the next time I am reedmaking.
Robbie Hughes years ago was reeding a D chanter I had once by Brendan O'Hare. He did the similar thing with the staple by using a pair of pliers to close the eye of the staple a wee bit without unbinding the reed as the High D was Sharp (Geoff Wooff also did this on the NPU DVD). Finbar used the hammer to close the eye of the staple a wee bit.
unregulated asked? what make of chanter is he playing on, I think its a Leo Rowsome concert D chanter he is playing, but I could be wrong about the maker. all the best.
