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It must be all the blowing and squeezing, the reed adjustments, drinking the local waters, and few beers, the driving to and from jobs, the snow shoveling and hanging out with musicians.....that caused the insanity that I am apparently suffering from. Within the next two months I will be relocated i...

This thread shows the elitist nature of some players.......just play the music, with a smile, thank your stars you've got pipes and the sense to play them and an appreciative audience. If they want "Happy Birthday" or the theme song from Seseme Street, sit down and play it or go away and l...

Why not utilize available materials and information ? Visit your local shop dealing in clarinets and get what the wood clarinet players use? They will have drop-through cleaning tools and swabs, the proper oil, etc and if lucky you will get to speak with a good wood-wind technician. Don't risk messi...

I'll be headed to NOLA again for St. Pats. Between parades with the local Pipe Bands I'd love to cross trails and down a pint or two with any UPer who wants to sit and share tunes and lies. Looking forward to hearing from you. I'll be in Baton Rouge a day or so, too, so if you are there, drop me a l...

Instead of tape (of any kind) have you considered just swabbing the inside, upper surface of the offending hole with Amberoid glue? It will effectively flatten the hole, and can be added a bit at a time, and is easily removed with care and a bit of cold steel.

For many years I worked in Construction. Passing the hat was an honored tradition on any any jobsite: Pass the hat, boys, send it 'round A fellow is in need. A five or ten-spot, nothing more We'll all help, you'll see. When one of us is ailing Or has a cross to bear We chip-in without failing Becaus...

Hey, how about if we all just chip in a ten-spot each and you keep your pipes.......

If we were all buds, playing in the same pub we'd do that without any question.

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In the violin business many players keep Humitrons or Dampits in their instruments during the heating season. Piano-owners have a damp-chaser system that dries in the summer and humidifies in the winter. Do any UPers alter the humidity in their cases to keep things fitting and playing?

Can you imagine the arguments that many look-alike Irishmen could get into? Who drank the last beer? Who forgot to close the door? Where are my clean socks? etc etc etc

James, as a GHBer you must have a relationship of some sort with your practice chanter, and if you can play that and feel those little 2-3 millameter holes then you shouldn't be having such problems feeling the holes in your UP chanter. Yes, I know they are in different places, hold the two side by ...

Hmmmmm.......perhaps the pivotal issue here is letting instruments get near Applebees, and then going in to see them, ..... in effect looking up at the walls when we might best be looking at our plates and the food thereon.... The real issue here could be Applebees, not damaged instruments...... :-?

Art should be collected, then protected from handling and damage, and enjoyed for what it appears to be. Musical instruments are, by their very nature, tools. And tools should be collected by persons who actually use them. Case in point: restaurants with carpenters tools fastened to the walls are do...

Folks have been making instruments with keys for several hundred years.....I have always wondered how those old Italians and Germans mounted their routers and which bits they used to cut the the key slots!! :D Remember, the advantage of power tools is that they allow us to destroy more materials, fa...

If you find standard gouges, of good steel and in the sweeps that you need and want.....and can afford.....and if they are less expensive than in-cannel gouges....buy them and have them re-ground as in-cannel gouges. About that same time, learn to sharpen them, and anything else you will be using to...

Hey, those are all VIOLA jokes!