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L&M is a brand of leather bag, highest quality. In GHB you can start with an L&M bag, use it every day for 20-years, season it like you should and have no trouble. In UP an L&M bag should last generations.

I get to New Orleans several time a year and have never seen, heard or met a UP player. If there is one or more there, I'd love to connect sometime. I can hook you up with some GHB players if you like. Have fun. Go to Coop's Place on Decator and say Hello for me

The gold beaters skin is made from cows intestines, or at least one layer of the membranes, and is stretched and dried. It comes in folded sheets and looks like slightly off-white tissue paper. To use it, you simply cut a little strip, dampen one end with your tongue (yup) and apply it as you would ...

The traditional sealing/wrapping in oboe and bassoon reeds has been "gold-beaters skin". Does anyone else use this for UP reeds? It is easy to apply, and seals and adheres naturally, being an organic material.

Greetings tumbleweed. I'm another Newbie, like you, but with other piping experience. I have a P. practice set and they work acceptably. Got them from Lark In the Morning: http://www.larkinam.com/MenComNet/Business/Retail/Larknet/Uilleann Same thing EXACTLY as listed above, but lowe price. Mine play...

I have purchased from these folks before: http://ivoryworksltd.com/
Nice stuff, easy to deal with, everything is legal and documented as necessary. It is a well known fact that real Ivory and Fine silver make a piper play 25% faster and 12.5 % more accurately........heh heh heh

Have you seen the book: "The Amateur Wind Instrument Maker" ? It has been a couple of years since I cracked my copy open, but if I remember there was some useful discussion about hole size and placement, versus bores, etc. Hope you can find a copy. Good luck with your project. It could get...

Excellent point, marcpipes. As a solo GHB I play lots of things as I like, a combination of standard settings and some adjustments for the situation. "Free", as you call it. The average band Pipe Major would have my ears dangling from the top of his Bass Drone for modifying standard settin...

I am off to NOLA in less than 12 hours. Wondered if there is a U.Piper in town who would like to get together at Crown and Anchor or some other pub and gab a bit. Write me or post here. See you there.

I'm headed for NOLA in abojt 18 hours......any Uilleann Pipers there who would like to get together at the Crown and Anchor or some other pub?

OK.....time for the newby question: Can anyone suggest places, titles, etc for good entry level music? I looked on amazon.com....to no avail. Your suggestions will be appreciated.

I wonder how many visitors here are cross-over pipers, i.e. first played or also play northumbrians, small-pipes, GHBs, Swedish pipes or some other sort. Further, if we begin and become proficient on one of the other pipes, does that help or hinder our study of UPs? And yet further, can and does the...

Go to http://www.mid-east.com and follow the links to UP stuff....that chanter is pictured and sells for $60 USD.

http://www.mid-east.com/cgi-bin/shopper ... n&key=UILP

Sorry if the term Pakistani offended anyone. I meant no harm, just too D****d lazy or busy to type out Pakistani several times......I promise I won't refer to the Irish in America as Micks !

Lorenzo, thanks for the welcome. yes, I'm up for the challenge. I have not got a set spotted yet, but was the losing bidder on that DuVe 1/2 set on Ebay last week. Oh, well! Maybe next time. Until then, I have a starter set coming from Lark In the Morning. I know, they are Pakistani's...but I have h...