Pictures of Your Pipes

Cayden · Post by **Cayden** » Sat Oct 14, 2006 4:20 am

That's clever but where is the tuning system? Not prodding here, genuinely curious.

innerhand · Post by **innerhand** » Sat Oct 14, 2006 5:45 am

Maybe the word tuning system was wrong.It is a tuning slide mechanism.
You can change the overall pitch of the Bass reg by sliding the Bass reg bar.

Cayden · Post by **Cayden** » Sat Oct 14, 2006 9:20 am

I see, that could be useful, thanks.

Fergmaun · Post by **Fergmaun** » Mon Oct 16, 2006 4:46 pm

Pat Stones D narrow bore chanter lefthanded in Rosewood, boxwood, brass now added with 4 keys.
More photo's and sound clips when I get the chanter next week.

Cheers

Ferg

Felix · Post by **Felix** » Thu Oct 19, 2006 11:12 pm

Innerhand:
Hisashiburi… Congratulations for this new set. By the way, how many sets do you have now?

innerhand · Post by **innerhand** » Mon Oct 23, 2006 9:45 am

One lovely 3/4 in C by David Boisvert

, my new great Hubbert D

and some sticks including my favorite Williams stick in D

Other few sticks like Angus Narrow bore D in the Box but not played so much.
Why don't you post your new set here! How's the set going?

Fergmaun · Post by **Fergmaun** » Wed Nov 01, 2006 1:59 pm

My Pat Stones lefthanded D narrow bore chanter rosewood, boxwood ,brass with 4 keys. I have taken some better photo's that show the colour of the chanter is dark brown not black.

I have now changed the looped bridle with brass wire.

Cheers

Ferg

MarcusR · Post by **MarcusR** » Fri Nov 03, 2006 10:15 am

I’m just back from Dublin with a new half set by Bill Haneman

I really don’t know what to say else than THANK YOU BILL!
It is even better than I could imagine. It looks fantastic and the masur really gives it a nice little Scandinavian touch. Within a year it will darken and blend perfectly with the brass and the ebony. When I was to give it a test play at Bills there were some very skilled musicians there and my brain went completely blank, couldn’t even get the fingering right

Safe back at the hotel I got to play around with it for a few hours and it really is amazingly sweet to play and the sound characteristics and voicing is even better than I thought was possible on a CP set. Don’t know how you did it Bill, but you sure did. This is my dream set and I really hope that I can do it justice some day.

Thanks Bill, for both hospitality and my set of pipes, and thank you Paul for my first real pint of draft Guiness in Ireland (had a few more the following days

).

Here is a clip of Bill playing my set, I’ll put up some of my own in the future.
Green Fields of Canada

Cheers all, now I better get back to practice, can't blame the instrument any more

/MarcusR

BTW
There is now a practise set by Robbie Hughes that is fore sale

John O'Gara · Post by **John O'Gara** » Fri Nov 03, 2006 11:47 am

Awesome Marcus!

Only about 16 months wait for mine now.

John

Patrick D'Arcy · Post by **Patrick D'Arcy** » Fri Nov 03, 2006 12:26 pm

Congratulations Marcus.... beautiful set of pipes there. Do you have regs on order from him too?

Pat.

anima · Post by **anima** » Fri Nov 03, 2006 2:43 pm

Hi Marcus,

could you give us a few more detailed pictures of the drone set up on your set?

L42B · Post by **L42B** » Fri Nov 03, 2006 7:48 pm

Oh, yeah...now that in my opninion is what drones should sound like

very growly sounding

. Mind you opinions on what drones should sound like very from person to person, I like the growly type myself but your tastes could very. The bass drone sounds like it could damage the foundations of a house if you wern't careful MarcuR

. I listened to one of the Bb sets on Bill's website; sometimes I think on Bb sets the drones can sound to mushy sometimes, but from the sound samples I've heard I believe Bill has the balance just right.

Cheers L42B

Fergmaun · Post by **Fergmaun** » Sat Nov 04, 2006 6:13 pm

I listened to one of the Bb sets on Bill's website

Hi L42B
Bill has no Bb (B Flat) sound clips on his website. I thick you mean B natural becasue he hadn't got Bb made jet

From http://billhaneman.ie/models.html

B flat instrument under development.

Cheers

Ferg

MarcusR · Post by **MarcusR** » Sun Nov 05, 2006 12:27 pm

Thanks all for the nice comments about my pipes but all credits should go to Bill, I just laid up the cash

I'll take som detailed pictures for you but it will take a few days as the CCD on my digital camera died while in Dublin

I'm not sure about regs Pat. Thing is that I got to hear and test play one of Bill's C# sets ...

...
So if I get good enough to progress to a full set that will be it.

L42B I think we share the same taste as Bill when it comes to drones

One of the main reasons why I placed my order with Bill was that he really understood what I was after, even though I wasn't able to express it in musical or pipemaking terms. When it comes to sound charateristics and tonality everyone has their on taste and liking so it is a real treat to be able to order a new set to your own preferences

Cheers for now!
/MarcusR

Douglas · Post by **Douglas** » Mon Nov 06, 2006 10:28 am

Good job Bill. I love those Tayloresque drones.

Is that the bass drone shown in the Piper Review?

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