This is a interessting new development, I have seen this set in Lissberg this year (bagpipe/hurdygurdy festival in southgermany). I didnt play it, but I hold it im my hand when talking to pipemaker J.Ross, Edgar, the owner of the set, joined our conservation and laid the set on the table. It is a ch...
I read somewhere that "dudel, Dudey etc." has is origen in a turkish word ("tüllum ?"), there are a lot of instrument in south-east europe with name like "Duduk", "Duda" etc., bagpipes and whistles, and the word means more or less "woodwind" (Brömse ...
I played one of his chanters on the Bordunale-Meeting/Germany in 2000-or 2001.
It seems that Güntzel made a great progress in this four years, because in 2000 his chanters where totally unplayable (in my opinion).
Hello, I made for myself a "new" keywork for the UP. http://cornemuse.de/loesung/up_key_neu/up_key_neu.htm (sorry, german site). The reason to build this keywork was that I had a chanter witout blocks to fit keys in the "traditional way". This was a "prototyp", at the m...
Das gleiche gilt für mich mit Englisch :wink: Uups, I thougth the translation was made by a "machine", but if you do the translation by yourself if have to apologize a second time, the "original" text is full of wrong orthography and bad jokes, so it must be a hard work to do :wi...
Alban Faust, bagpipemaker Melerud/Sweden made a Cornemuse de Berry from Laburnam for a friend. Maybe Alban have some pieces to sell or know where to buy. http://home.bip.net/alban_faust/ (ask for "Goldregen") A friend told me that he have seen some Laburnam at Cropp/Hamburg/Germany. http:/...
Thank you for your interest in my website Lorenzo. It is not importand, but the last part of the translation given is, I beg your pardon, totaly wrong. It makes no sense. I think it is better to give a better translation, even this text is really unimportand. The meaning is only: "If you make y...
Hello, it is very kind of you to tell me you understand my english. I started in school with russian and latein, only a few years english. my problem is that I could not asses if I say what I mean. But in future I will not longer "lurking". One point I forget : Density of ebony 0,95-1,12gr...
Hello, excuse my english. I'm making bagpipes for more then 10 years, this is my "explanation" why different kinds of woods sound sometimes different. At first, this has been said before, it is importand that you could only compare two chanter if the bore, the tonhole lattice and the reed ...
Hello I made several bellows and played several bellows by other makers,I agree with all points mention before, there is in my opinion one additional importand point for a good bellows: Some bellows blow out like a ballon when pressed, for the first 3-5cm you pressed the bellows no air is pumped in ...
Tony, first excuse my bad english, I´m not used to speak/write in english for years. I´m from germany. After playing and building bagpipes for more then ten years, mostly french bagpipes, I build in summer 2000 a uilleann full set for myself. Having trouble to get brass tube I decided to build the p...