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I am sorry to say that Brian Howard suffered a brain aneurysm on March 10th. He is slowly recovering but this means that the Howard whistle business is now for sale/license.
Please PM me for further details

We are celebrating 30 years of making the Howard Low Whistles. We would like to thank all our customers for their support over the years.

have a good night we will be in Gibraltar so will have to wait for the next one

Hi all
The new Sheffield (UK) pipers club will start on Tuesday 5th August 2014 at 8pm in the back room of Flynns pub on Trippet Lane (formerly the Grapes). The club will meet on the first Tuesday of every month.
All welcome.

Yes a great week as always. It was nice to welcome Marcus O Hagan and Liam Flynn. Thanks for the excellent food Jane.

It probably would sean. its a lot of hard work finding a suitable venue at an affordable mprice.
This is our 8th residential tionol and places are filling up but there are some places left.

Thats great Sean. Looking forward to seeing you

got a few replies so places are begining to fill up
www.pipeline-music.com
this is a link to hear Dermot Hyde play its well worth a listen

Had a great day at the Manchester piping day on Saturday. Sean Jones’ pyrotechnics, tube with holes in, gas fed in at one end, speaker at the other end, Light the gas, tune the speaker and see standing waves. Didn’t set fire to the place. Following this a good discussion about acoustics. Lessons wen...

Thanks for that. I do let him out to play occassionally, the next time with be the Manchester pipers club Tionol on December 7th

Sorry, no flaming intended. I was pointing out acoustical inaccuracies regarding your description of the effects the bore and staple have on the shape of the air column. And I took the “"perfect", you know what I mean” to mean that there are “acceptable” faults in the tuning of UP chanters...

Myrddinemrys posted: In a similar discussion with my former pipe instructor, his thoughts were to focus on making the best staple/reed that he could, and make the respective adjustments during the reedmaking process. I see this as an opportunity. Being that the chanter is a truncated cone and the st...

Rory posted: It is fairly well accepted that different chanter designs need different staples .How do get around that fact ? RORY Firstly it is not necessarily a FACT when considering staples with the correct bore design. Good research involves disregarding received wisdom when the research shows it...

100 Years of Stainless Steel 2 Years of Stainless Staples - CP It has been 100 years since Harry Brearley invented stainless steel in my home city of Sheffield. He was researching anti-corrosion materials for use in gun barrels but found a better use for the alloy in the manufacture of cutlery and s...

Hi all
Final registration for the summer school.
We have a couple of places left.
Its a great week of piping, friendship and craic.
You can register by PM or email.