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Seth is making some of the finest pipes you can get anywhere, as far as I'm concerned. I played his B set at a Tionol in Chicago and liked it instantly; the chanter had a good singing voice, the drones were terrific, the regulators were solidly built with superb action, and everything was nicely in ...

On 2002-02-01 16:26, Tony wrote: Peter Laban wrote: Geoff Wooff made a narrow bore D as an experiment around 1985. A few makers have followed the example.... The truth of the matter is that the narrow D chanter has never really caught on and remains a bit of a hybrid, it's OK but still lacks the ap...

As someone who plays the pipes, perhaps I can shed a little light on the hard D. On pipes, it's produced by cutting the bottom D with an A and pinching the bag a little to increase the air pressure hitting the reed. This helps helps to hit the hard D cleanly without overblowing the reed. Sometimes t...