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Mais à saint Chartier, il y en a pas mal comme ça ...
c'est un peu le Woodstock du Berry !
Emènes ta peluche avec toi, Sylvain, que je te reconnaisse !

Hey Sylvain,
ça veut dire qu'on va peut etre se croiser aux stand uilleann pipes dans quelques jours !

Thank you all,
I will see and listen to some drones in saint Chartier festival, how can i recognise good drones ? do they sound "bheu" or "bzzz" ?
And what about the drones reeds ?
lots of questions, sorry, but I'm ignorant a lot too !

I had a look on Whitmer web site, and his drones have a nice looking, and they are affordable.
Just want to hear them now !

i play an Arhpa practice set. It 's a "Rowsome" style of making, and as PJ said in a previous discussion, it seems to be a loud chanter.

Hello,
I'm new in uilleann piping, and I would like to know how is it possible to recognise good drones.
And I would be please to know your feeling with your own drones, that will probably help me to make a choice !
Cheers,
Birl

thank you for those advices,
I will brind my chanter throughout the world to choose the drones ,
going to start my trip in Saint Chartier ...
Cheers !

Hi,
I have a practice set and i would to upgrade it to a half set soon.
What do you think about using drones from a different maker ?
And do you know "couple" wich work particulary well ?
(I play an Arhpa practice set)
Cheers !

I just received a practice set, but i wonder how hard should be a chanter reed ?
do i need to squeeze a lot the bag to get the second octave ?
and if my reed is too hard, how should i make it sweeter ?
Tell me your own experience please, that will help me a lot !
Cheers,

You can guess that a flute player is also piper by looking is fingers : if he (or she) plays with the second phallanges of both hands, he/she might be a piper (or a low whistler ...) but the real difficulty with flute is not more the fingering than the blow technique, and that's a challenge for a pi...

music of Braveheart
and a master class in the Interceltique Lorient Festival
but i began four years later (I was not crazy enough yet )

what i know is that there will be soon one more piper !

Hello Charles ! Well, Saint Chartier is a little town of Berry, in the center of the country. You will find in this festival a lot of makers from everywhere, and many sort of pipes, especially french pipes, but also scottish, spanish ... and Irish ! There will be some uilleann pipes maker : Chris Ba...

Hello Mike; I have some informations from Chris. Bayley about his pipes. I would be please to hear them in saint Chartier. He also told me he will come with one of his costumers for help, i guess that "he" is you :wink: ! And i will go to the Paris Na piobairi and have a talk with some pip...

Salut Roger o'Keeffe,
j'habite en région parisienne, et je suis d'accord avec toi ! c'est pourquoi j'ai posté cette discussion. Toi meme, a tu quelques infos sur certains pipes ? Ton avis est le bienvenu !
merci !