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Just in case anyone comes Googling for it, as it is the top search result - these two books are still available from the London Piper's Club. Times being what they are they have gone up to £5 (for both). I am told they can also be gotten from SWAUP. Good tunes, and handy to have them "arranged&...

Coming from the GHB world, initially, the idea that Irish trad has "standardization of teaching practices" seems pretty overstated ;) As a GHBer it amuses me too, but there is a genuine concern that there is too much standardisation and homogenisation going on, and it gets some people fai...

This might be wide of the mark but I get the impression that piping seems to be particularly afflicted with this idea that certain things are simply "wrong". The whole question of what it means to be "wrong" in a traditional art form is a fascinating one, and I suspect several P...

Mine is made of bicycle inner tube, which seems to do the job well.

There is quite a lot of material about such reeds on the net, and it is interesting to peruse. I am sure both could learn something from the other. The cane itself is the same stuff, treated the same way. What I'd do is get a good reed-making guide then get your friend to go through it with you. She...

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Might be useful.

I don't think I'd trust it to check it as baggage, but it's a great carry-on case. Given that any carry-on case can be taken from you at any time and stowed in the hold, this isn't an approach I'd encourage. Being willing to walk off the plane isn't necessarily enough, either, because it can be per...

Pitching in to say with your background especially you will be fine with drones. The only argument that as far as I can see hold water *against* starting with drones is that there is more to go wrong which is not good as a beginner, but someone with your experience has at least got the ability to kn...

Reading, on the other hand, can be done anywhere...

This is a finely balanced one. I start all my GHB beginners right-handed and I see no reason that it matters. It certainly would be a little bit easier for you to pick up the basic elements on a left handed set. On the other hand, you are pretty much condemning yourself to needing to commission your...

IS it a common recording practice?. Probably not, simply because I think most players would probably feel the resulting performances would be worse, not better, than recording as a single performance. Of course, for specific effects - say, if you had a notion for a particular regulator accompanimen...

Is there a safe way to mess with these scammers, like lead them on right to the point were you pay but then say you've changed your mind. or is that risky? It's not really risky, if you're sensible, but you're not really having much effect on them. They get quite a lot of timewasters anyway - as an...

Some minor points: Within the EU, no CITES certificate of any kind is required, nor is one required when purchasing in-country. My understanding is that anything manufactured prior to 1st Jan 2017 requires no certificate, although presumably it would be prudent to be able to prove it. Also, I believ...

A piano is stretched because a metal wire is not perfectly in tune with itself; that is the harmonics are not where they should be. It's not a mysterious psychological effect.