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It must indeed be very frustrating for a pipemaker who has spent years developing their product ,to have it ruined at a stroke by ignorance. But is it not also true that for the makers own sanity, that they have to mentally let go of their "children" for better or for worse. RORY Oh, abso...

Thanks for the welcome. Let's see how far I get with this: Being a maker, one of my instruments suffered at the hands of someone who thought they knew better. It was a set that lived a long way from Ireland and the owner, my customer, had the misfortune to break the chanter reed. So, instead of aski...

mirabai wrote: Some designs have a slower taper in the top half of the chanter and then taper more quickly in the bottom half. They start and end with the usual dimensions of a 3/16" throat and 1/2" bottom end, roughly speaking, for a D chanter, but can be much smaller than a typical Rows...