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Benedict has asked me to pass this along to interested parties: Dear pipers, I hope that this post and accompanying photo will explain why I have not been answering the shop phone for the last couple of weeks. I regret any inconvenience. Thanks to the wonders of modern antibiotics, the good wishes ...

It doesn't hurt to remember that the Taylor brothers were working c. 1870-1890, without the benefit of electric tools, and probably without any other source of power besides muscle. The stuff they came up with was not to everyone's taste, and there are plenty of people who think it was downright ugl...

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Jim McGuire wrote:Taylor chanters are always sharp of 440.

Many, yes, but not all. Cummings and Scott, flat for sure. The owner of the Cummings set reports that the double comes out right at A440. I have heard and played it flatter than that, as well.

... long after the Taylors, they emigrated in 1872 and O'Neill wrote that they developed the wide bore specifically for American concert halls, although I've also come across (from Quinn, in the SRS journals?) an assertion that they made wide bore instruments before emigrating. ... It wouldn't have...

Sweet looking stuff, Bill. Where do you find your role models, hmmm? (cue theremin track) Mostly with the assistance of a local medium. Maurice and Denis have been helpful enough, and Michael could go on about himself for hours, but Timothy still won't talk to me. :cry: Oh, sorry, you said "wh...

Here are three pictures of a set belonging to a friend of mine. What do you think? Similar to the one under discussion? Note the long ferrules on the regulator ends. Can't see much of the shapes of the caps, but there may be something there, too. This one also happens to play very well. http://www.i...

They have harnessed the power of time travel with this device: http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid192/p7196c199b07ebab52a1e4aca8d5333da/f1b83d5b.jpg and make repeated trips back in time whenever necessary for details. It isn't necessary to make the trips if you have the boys' sub-ether mobile...

I'm in the "-esque" camp on this set, for reasons that have already been pointed out by others.

texasbagpiper wrote:Only to you Bill, back on topic please...

Not only to Bill.

Lasers? Water jets? Sounds like fun, guys. Let me know how it turns out. Suppose you were to slip into a tea-induced reverie and missed the whoosh. What would give way first? The steady rest or the leadscrew chain? South Bend lathes have a clutch on the longitudinal feed (which is separate from the ...

... Is this too fast? ... When the drill exits at the end of the bore, the loud shhhh of air inside the chuck tells you to put down your tea cup, but I have always kept myself in front of the machine in case of any trouble. Sometimes, especially 18'' bores, I will dampen the shaft of the gundrill n...

Then switch on the power feed and drink a cup of tea, whilst watching the lathe bore out the wood for me. :) If you do it right, you won't have time for a cup of tea. I would strongly advise against relying on feed via the leadscrew. Bill's recommendation to hold the shank and feed up by hand is a ...

What's so funny about BC speaking Urdu? It's one of the most widely spoken languages on the planet. (As Hindustani/Hindi/Urdu, that is.)

I used to simply heat a piece of tubing and then tap a tapered mandrel into it with a hammer. Voila! one tapered staple. I think I git that method from 'Piper's Dispair' (Dispare??, Despair - I forget how to spell it). ... It's funny the way things like this come full circle. The method described i...