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The second edition of my collection of articles and photographs on Pipes and Pipemaking is now ready. This includes all of the articles and most of the photos from the first edition as well as greatly expanded sections on tools and methods, and a much larger selection of bore data. I would be happy ...

PJ wrote:
There are not many top-shelf uilleann pipers who subsequently became top-shelf pipemakers...

I know of one.

I don't think of it so much as "strength," but I shoot for a center-line thickness of 0.95mm using Engelmann spruce.

I really like what you've done with the G# key!

Sorry, wrong end of the stick.

I meant to say thinner edge of the belly; the last half inch wouldn't be good enough. I got the majority of my stock of spruce from my old teacher in Yugoslavia, and he was obsessive about the grain orientation, for precisely the reasons you mention. As I think about it more, turning a tube on the ...

Thanks, David! I was actually wondering what to do with the remainder of the belly, so I'll use the thin edge of the wedge first as you describe. Mike Well, I’m not sure how many slips you’ll be able to get from the thin edge of the belly blank, but there’s probably one in there, at least. After I ...

I am about to make a few of these, but am going to cheat! I will use some close grained Italian spruce, originally intended for viola bellies, but will cut off the thickest section, turn it round on the Boxford, then bore and ream it out to the size of cane I use, then treat it as a cane tube. ... ...

I believe it was Anthony Baines, in his book Bagpipes , who quoted Billy Pigg, discussing a reed he had made from a match box (pine? Deal?) "A reed can be made of owt". ... Telephone game. Back a generation: it was Tom Clough. Baines quoted William Cocks reporting Tom Clough saying "...

Peter Duggan wrote: Misguided puerile doggerel.

Not impressed at all!

Misguided? I don't know: it seems to follow a long and well established tradition.

The question is: How much of that doggerel’s innuendo?

Fergmaun wrote:Liam O'Flynn plays a C Chanter by Benedict Koehler on Arthur McBride - Planxty live in Vicar Street Dublin 2004

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6-zPpLTtfQY
...

Koehler and Quinn, in this case.

Not Koehler and Quinn. Full credit to Benedict Koehler only. BK would not survive on his share of the K&Q output, and this chanter was one of his solo efforts.

I am trying to contact Mr. Bernard Grigsby, but so far without luck.
Bernard, if you're out there, would you give me a call, please?
If anyone else could help me get in touch with him I'd appreicate it very much. Please PM.

Thanks
DMQ

boyd wrote:http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=rYPlXi_a5mg

Nollaig McCarthy on Quinn pipes

That's not a Quinn set. It's a Koehler and Quinn set.

hi pancelticpiper Is that the chanter you are using here? http://video.google.co.uk/videoplay?docid=-6741458978519280952&q=uillean&ei=LLxCSIK-C5DWjALOzo3kCQ If so it sounds ok to me. But given the catalogue of sorrow you have described, maybe new chanter rather than new reed is the way to g...