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The chanter top could have been made by Dave Williams.
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Merry Christmas to all the pipers around the world, hope you have a good one and a happy and prosperous new year. More power to your elbow

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RoRy

A good wide bore chanter should be able to accept reeds that will produce various volumes from earsplittenboomerpipes to softcottonwooltonepipes. More so than narrow bore , which can be very forgiving. The tone of WB is very reed dependant . Which can be a double edged sword because if they are reed...

Thanks Geoff for your reply, one question and if you don't want to answer thats fine bearing in mind your previous reply. Out of all the wide bore pipes you have heard is there any that come close to being pleasant to your ears. Say for instance Liam Og's romesome set .I say that because I remember ...

geoff wooff wrote: ↑Mon Dec 05, 2022 1:45 pmmany other makers are doing very well at that subject.

I remember watching an interview you gave, maybe twenty years ago and you expressed a real dislike for wide bore pipes, do you still dislike them or do you think they have gotten a bit more to your liking.
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Pipes make an appearance in all sorts of places
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Ah , Just wishful thinking on my part. I know Geoff dislikes wide bore pipes and wouldn't have anything to do with them, but just think what advances he might have made to the instrument if he had applied his vast store of knowledge and experience. We all know that wide bore is the future of the ins...

There's no doubt that Geoff wooff make great union pipes and narrow bore concert pitch pipe . So with all his accumulated experience and expertise is it not about time that he put all that knowledge into producing a wide bore concert pitch set that he would be proud of.How would that set sound?
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As far as I can gather alot of woodwind instrument making knowledge is empirical and technical explanations of the problematic idiosyncrasies of the f# hole are going to be so complicated, it's probably beyond us regular Joe's. My guess would be that the size of the hole and its position in relation...

There's no problem with stitched bellows AFAIK, other than they are probably time consuming to make. There were some pipe maker's that were still hand stitching bags but most are probably now machine stitched.
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If you can't find tacks, don't dismay
Go to the Internet and search eBay.

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Not many pipe maker's or bellows maker's making stitched bellows these days. The cons outweigh the pros by a large margin, so why bother with stitched bellows. A good question would be why were they ever made in the first place. Could it have been as simple as a shortage of tacks and stitching was t...

Doesn't Dave Quinn call that part of the chanter the zombie zone due to its lack of response to things like taping or rushing and such. Holes in the wrong place.
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Ps maybe a different reed configuration.

BigDavy wrote: ↑Mon Oct 24, 2022 8:44 am The new Hakim Din instruments are back on - I got one like this from Hakim Din and it worked quite well)

David

Geez Dave, how many uilleann pipes do you need.
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Its a shame Martin Preshaw is no longer a pipemaker , he was making some lovely sounding pipes.
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