And yet another pipemaker...
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Re: And yet another pipemaker...
Ok
but i remember you have a williams set
isn't it?
Carel
but i remember you have a williams set
isn't it?
Carel
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It's always a combination of reed and bore but for response and stability first of all you'll have to look at your reed design.rorybbellows wrote:Sounds like a long precess,so say you wanted to improve the response or the stability what would you have to do ?Evertjan 't Hart wrote: After that you decide what you like to improve like tuning, response, sound, harmonics, stability.
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The wider the better the width of my reeds is 13.7 mm, it's like all woodwind the more 'wood' on the reed the better the stability.
I don't know if you make pipes yourself but if you do is it based on a Rowsome?
Most Rowsome chanters are much happier to play A around 450 so if you want 440 for your A you'll have to make the bore a bit longer to start with. All tone holes will shift accordingly so will the sweet spots. All 'normal' problems suddenly can be solved like the E problem, hard and soft D are suddenly in tune ect,
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Evertjan
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Only a Williams chanter Carel,carel wrote:Ok
but i remember you have a williams set
isn't it?
Carel
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Re: And yet another pipemaker...
Very interesting, a "reed first" approach: learn to make a reed, then design a chanter around it.Evertjan 't Hart wrote: First you spend a few years learning to make reeds, Then you take a chanter you like more or less and copy it.
After that you decide what you like to improve like tuning, response, sound, harmonics, stability.
Seems that some makers take a "chanter first" approach: take a fine-playing chanter (by Rowsome or whomever) and copy it as exactly as possible... then learn to make the right reed for it, the assumption being that it's a good chanter so the right reed must be possible to make. Rowsome must have been able to make a good reed for it, or he wouldn't have made the chanter like he did.
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This is Brian Howard's approach and his reed/chanter combination is unbelievably reliable. I have a V-SAM tuner that measures just intonation instruments very accurately and you can take one of his off-the-shelf reeds, pop it in, and after moving it in or out a bit get it spot on for every note. Another thing is that his reed/chanter combination is reliable under various weather conditions. I travel around a bit and have gone from the US mid-Atlantic region to, say, Germany and the chanter works there as well as it did in Baltimore. It is truly amazing.pancelticpiper wrote:Very interesting, a "reed first" approach: learn to make a reed, then design a chanter around it.Evertjan 't Hart wrote: First you spend a few years learning to make reeds, Then you take a chanter you like more or less and copy it.
After that you decide what you like to improve like tuning, response, sound, harmonics, stability.
Seems that some makers take a "chanter first" approach: take a fine-playing chanter (by Rowsome or whomever) and copy it as exactly as possible... then learn to make the right reed for it, the assumption being that it's a good chanter so the right reed must be possible to make. Rowsome must have been able to make a good reed for it, or he wouldn't have made the chanter like he did.
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Yes but what I meant was you must be a good reedmaker first before you take the next step.pancelticpiper wrote: Very interesting, a "reed first" approach: learn to make a reed, then design a chanter around it.
I don't think it's very smart to design/make a chanter to fit a reed...
Anyway, just to be clear
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Lovely... , lovely work Evertjan, specially the keys. Thank you very much for being my first reedmaking tutor!!
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Thanks for posting the mp3 file. Lovely sound!
Cheers,
Phil
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Re: And yet another pipemaker...
Nice looking pipes
Similar set here from a display in 2007 - is it yours ?
I like the way the keys are proportioned - bigger touches on the bass and what I assume is a contra bass.
Similar set here from a display in 2007 - is it yours ?
I like the way the keys are proportioned - bigger touches on the bass and what I assume is a contra bass.
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Congratulations on your decision to make pipes full time. May it be a personally fulfilling, and hopefully prosperous, endeavor.
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Wow! Beautiful! Congratulations, and best of luck.
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The 4 reg set a few posts up is actually by Chris Bayley. I was playing it at the Festival and it generated a lot of interest. Unfortunately it already belonged to someone who was very keen to get his hands on it.
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Wery nice looking pipes I am realy happy to see finaly again new maker with beautiful regulators keywork up to my taste. I almoust thought nobody will follow Dave Williams great taste for asthetics
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If I remember correctly Dave Williams had his keys cast. The ones that Evertjan make look like they are also cast.
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No casting it's all done by hand. It's a lot more work but I don't like cast keys or better yet I don't like the firescaling you get when you cast brass.rorybbellows wrote:If I remember correctly Dave Williams had his keys cast. The ones that Evertjan make look like they are also cast.
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