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Hello again

I have just got off the phone with my host servers, their Apache server was down due to a broken link in the London Docklands area recently.

My web-site should be back on line very shortly.

Thanks

Davy.

Dear Pipers I have just dialed into the forum for my weekly look, only to see yet another blast towards myself, WOW this must be one pissed off fellow. I have just looked and sure enough my site is down, which I'm looking into right now. I do have direct FTP access to my web-site, but I have NOT alt...

Dear Pipers After reading the latest news concerning my name, I feel that I can no longer sit by and take it in the jaw as they say, what I will say is. I am now back in cyber circulation from a spell of illness, which most of my customers know about, this had put things well and truly in the back s...

Hello I have spoken to Peter reference the set on EBay, he says it was one of a a pair that he made for two guys who are freinds, the second set was made for a top piper called Wattie lees, Watties set has the full ivory livery with rolled metalwork, both sets have C nat keys and three other key blo...

Stew

Thanks, Nuf said.

Davy.

Stew Why do I get the distinct feeling that you are rubbing it in, Isn't this thread supposed to be about my pipe kits, I think we all know by now what has been said, if your are so interested why don't you ask him yourself, I'm sure everyone thanks you for the reminder though. And finally to answer...

Since I have been the subject of much dicussion on the forum lately, I would like to try explain a few things to those who have read some of the comments posted here. I'm not looking for sympathy here in any way, but I feel that I must let the folks know, that I have had several bouts of illness, no...

JD

I have several customers in Japan, if you contact me off list I will send you their addresses.

DDS.

I have the album by the Spanish group Hevia, called No Man's Land, this is a modern version of some old Spanish mountain music with Giata pipes and a set of electronic pipes played by the band leader. There is some very fancy fast playing in there, which is a breath of fresh air for bagpipes in gene...

Hi Tony has hit the nail on the head here, an instrument which is designed with Just temperence or Monophonicaly tuned is indeed designed to be played to blend against a set of drones. I would like to point out that most modern tuning meters are designed for tuning the many modern instruments found ...

Dionys wrote Perhaps he stamps the bellows he makes himself, and leaves the ones that are to be finished by the purchaser unstamped. Or if he doesn't, perhaps that would be a good way to keep track. Thats right, I put a date and serial No. inside the bellows and somewhere else on all set/parts, but ...

Rick wrote Is there any guarantee on those kits or screw it up and it's too bad? What if they have problems putting it together/getting it to work/in tune? I can say, I only gaurantee my own work and that the chanters here mentioned are already reeded and in tune, its the rest of the set that is in...

Hi

There is a whole selection of tuning and possible backing properties in software called Finale and Steinberg suite, which includes Q basis, these are used by top recording studio's and amatures alike.

Davy.

Plastic Memory One of the problems I have has with styrene type plastics is, the more you try to shape them, they always wants to go back to their original shape, IE flat and do this over a period of time unnoticed until the reed goes off song. I found out if you take a yoghurt catron and place it i...

You can also tell if the ball is Ivoy by rolling it on a table or the floor and seeing if it has gone oval, if its old and still perfectly ball round it more than likely a compo ball, also if inspected carefuly you will see a small black pin dot where the nearve centre of the tusk once lay. And on h...