Tim Britton Reeds
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Tim Britton Reeds
Has anyone had any luck with a different style of reed in Tims chanters. Instead of the short bridleless ones..... Thanks
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Tim's reeds are brillent, but I would not sugest sending your pipes to him as he has a nasty habit of never getting around to doing the job for you. Not to give him a bad name, but he is not exactually punctual about sending stuff back, he just forgets about it.
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Re: britton reeds
He's always been more than prompt with my stuff and very pleasant to deal with, to boot.jdevereux wrote:Tim's reeds are brillent, but I would not sugest sending your pipes to him as he has a nasty habit of never getting around to doing the job for you. Not to give him a bad name, but he is not exactually punctual about sending stuff back, he just forgets about it.
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nick whitmer could help with your reeds , nick learn to make pipes from tim,and think he makes same style reeds for his stuff.
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At our last tionol I watched Benedict Koehler make a reed for a Tim Britton chanter. He said that he has only had luck reeding Tim's chanters by reeding them Tim's way.
Benedict went ahead and tried his regular method, just to see if it would work this time, but it did not (at least not up to his expectations). So he tried again with the Tim Britton method and it worked.
Benedict went ahead and tried his regular method, just to see if it would work this time, but it did not (at least not up to his expectations). So he tried again with the Tim Britton method and it worked.
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Tim Britton reeds
I've had success with Tim's style of reed using two methods:
1. order a reed from Tim! Not cheap, but not the most expensive reed I've heard of. He sent me a new chanter reed after a phone conversation, payment and reed might have crossed in the mail, I got it that fast. Popped it in and played "Off She Goes."
2. make about a hundred reeds using Tim's book "My Method." I will report that I've had better success lately by changing the recommended dimensions very slightly; a wee bit *longer* helps with the second octave E overtones, and about one mm *narrower* than his recommended width.
I've had more than one piper and pipemaker tell me they didn't think I could get a hard bottom D out of my Britton chanter, and not every reed will do it, but one of my recent efforts gave a very nice hard D (but not so nice on balance or tuning overall).
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1. order a reed from Tim! Not cheap, but not the most expensive reed I've heard of. He sent me a new chanter reed after a phone conversation, payment and reed might have crossed in the mail, I got it that fast. Popped it in and played "Off She Goes."
2. make about a hundred reeds using Tim's book "My Method." I will report that I've had better success lately by changing the recommended dimensions very slightly; a wee bit *longer* helps with the second octave E overtones, and about one mm *narrower* than his recommended width.
I've had more than one piper and pipemaker tell me they didn't think I could get a hard bottom D out of my Britton chanter, and not every reed will do it, but one of my recent efforts gave a very nice hard D (but not so nice on balance or tuning overall).
JVF
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Ive been using the David Daye dimentions, and I made some adjustments to Tims plans widdening the bore and moving all the tone holes a little higher on the chanter.... but I want to start making my chanters directly from his measurements,,, so Im going to have to make that style reed. Ive only tried it a few times, Ill have to keep at it...
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And very knowledgable - has posted some interesting information from time-to-time on this very forum.Joseph E. Smith wrote:I have always found dealing with Mr. Britton pleasant and entertaining. Nice guy that Tim fella is.
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