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Calum, I'm moving to Gala in July, so there will be at least one other "piper" fairly close, although the bad news is I've only been playing these things for a few months and most of that time was spent making my own half set and struggling with homemade reeds. Similar scarcity of pipers i...

Antaine, I only have a wood lathe ($200) a drill press ($60) and a grinder ($40). I started about a year ago making a set of SSP then GHB and then Border pipes. In December I launched into the UP's woking from the plans in Wilbert Garvins book. Have now almost completed a half set (5 gradually impro...

Thanks for the replies they're providing a lot of food for thought. I held back from further tweeking and scraping since the reed was good overall and thought i'd start with the suggestion of blu tack between the E and F holes ......worked like a charm!!! Peter, thank you very much indeed! Both E's ...

Thanks for the reply Lorenzo. I had a sneaking suspicion this would not be a straight forward fix. Western N. Texas hasn't been humid for months so you may have something there. Hopefully the problem will not follow me to Scotland. I shall, in the meantime, continue to tweak 'n scrape. Anyone else g...

A common complain as I understand it but I beg your patience and indulgence once more. I've been tinkering with building chanters and reeds for some time now (still only a matter of weeks) and have at any rate produced a combination that will play very nicely and easily, to my ear anyway (I haven't ...

Awesome!! I thank everyone for their responses. Ken thanks for the pm and fancypiper thanks for the tip on scraping too much on the centerline. All excellent advice. I made another reed and very soon had a full second octave (though the last 2 notes are a little hit or miss). I had made and fitted t...

Fancypiper, Thanks for the quick response. I dont have a "normal" chanter available so I'm in the dark with both reed and chanter. I'll get cracking with your reed suggestion though. I'm unfamiliar with "squinter" designs could you shed some light? Does anyone out there have expe...

Greetings, :) I am new to this forum and I appreciate your patience in advance. I've been wanting to learn the uilleann pipe for the last 18 yrs or so and not wanting to live life simply I decided to build my own . Having completed a Half set (to wilbert Garvins plan) and made a few reeds, I'm reall...