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I use airtight chrome tanned cowhide . thickness 1.2 to 1.4mm. Suck the hide on the smooth side to check airtightness. I use liquid neoprene cement to glue two pieces , hairy side to hairy side. Make the lap joint by skiving away the chrome finish over the joint area to allow the glue to penetrate i...

[quote=Mr.Gumby post_id=1253240 time=1650625294 user_id=14893 Alain was exhibiting sets during the Willie, the early ones were quite different in appearance. He reportedly settled on the later appearance and the stainless metal after Neillidh wanted a set that looked like another one he had seen. :P...

PJ wrote: ↑Thu Apr 21, 2022 3:22 pm

You should have said you were buying a Ford Co(nce)rtina

HA! Very good PJ

Isn't the Arts Council, Music Network or a body like that doing a Musical Capital scheme? I seem to recall a few instances of people having instruments at least partially funded. Matthew Noone had a hybrid Indian sarode funded to play Irish music, I believe. But that is probably not targeted at you...

To buy a new ( or second hand ) car it only takes the ability to pay off a loan and you're on the road. Try asking a bank to lend you the price of a set of Pipes. I vividly recall looking for a small loan to by my first good concertina. I had half the money but would my bank lend me 5 weeks wages? N...

http://forums.chiffandfipple.com/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=48816&hilit=Business# It's an complicated issue with no one answer, I'm at work at the moment but would like to add to the discussion later. Hope you don't mind me posting this link Geoff, you get mentioned in it alot but it's a relative ...

Whilst we are here let's look at this Price/Value thing a wee bit. What do we think a good set of pipes should cost ? For me, who is currently making two full sets per year, the price of a set should equal half my yearly income, as I have no other way of making a living. Yes I could make three sets ...

rorybbellows wrote: ↑Tue Apr 19, 2022 6:34 am

Holy macaroni, hope you're getting a good slice of that
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Not one brass farthing Rory. It is one of my babies so, if it needed a helping hand to find a new home, so be it.

Indeed ,please keep your kidneys Rory.

I'll take temptation away from you by saying the set has now been sold above the asking price !

Thanks for the interest everone has shown and for the ten people who decared they wanted to buy the set.
Geoff.

An update: 15th April.

The first people to view the set have decided not to purchase and the next person on the list will be making contact .

Rory, a musical instrument is just a tool, an implement for making music, but a set of Pipes feels more alive than an electronic piano. If I was just assembling factory made parts into a complete instrument perhaps I would see the end result as a product of my business. However, as I hand make the w...

Update:

Nine people have registered a desire to purchase the set and the first of those has been given 'first refusal' and will view the pipes soon.

For those who do not use Facebook: Due to the untimely demise of the owner of a Silver C set made by myself in 2003 it is now for sale. This set was made to celebrate 25 years of making my sole living from Pipemaking . It is made in Black Ebony with Sterling Silver keywork and ferrules, mounts and e...

Although I agree with NicoMoreno that F#'s on flat chanters are often happier with two finger venting it is also possible that the chanter reed is a little too stiff. I generally find the type of Flat chanter with smaller tone holes to be more compliant with a lighter reed, more fully scraped, more ...

Perhaps it says more about the size of the exit hole .

An interesting demonstration never the less.