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Brendan said a bunch of stuff, including: I agree with Alan that quietened concert pitch, just sound awful. Gay Mckeon was mentioned earlier has having loud pipes. I have played with him and didn't find this, his pipes were certainly nowhere near as loud as mine! I think it depends on your concept o...

My Brad Angus 5 regulator Bb set, when it was fresh off the lathe, not covered in munge from constant playing like now...broken down here, the extra regs removed. [img]http://C:\Documents%20and%20Settings\Robert%20Bester\My%20Documents\My%20Pictures\Trucated%20Bb%20set[/img][/url]

What thicknessness (sp?) of metal are being used for these staples? I've always seen .020 recommended in books, so I've bought a bunch of sheets of them. Craig Fischer, on one of the Sean Reid Society CD-ROMs, details some really old reeds he or others took apart, and the metal thickness was .022, o...

Regarding cane hardness: I recently received some S.L. Medir cane, 2 Kilos, and it does seem softer than what I'd previously got from Nick Whitmer, who supplies their cane in the USA. I asked for the softest possible stuff.

"Robbie Hannan says you should always cut E with G..... he thinks the A cut is too harsh on a flat set. [he also insists that G rolls should be cut with B, to add tone and character] " Yow! I do that sometimes to kill an unwanted hard D, if I play the D and then try to play G, rolled or ot...

Just ignore the squeak in the tight triplet. Many pipers use light reeds, this is just part of the sound. A few obsess over this and play very stiff "armbuster" reeds to get around it. Unless you're strong to begin with, it's probably not worth the pain, unless you want to lift weights to ...

You can put some "rushes" in the bore, wires with junk (string, blobby shtuff, etc.) on them, and then use a reed which is both sharper in overall pitch, and flat in the 2nd octave, without the rush; with the rush it's in tune. This can also serve as a tuning device, if the blobs can slide...

I gave up on NPU after the 3rd increase in dues, not that I'd pay 30 dollars (instead of pounds) a year to learn about their roof being repaired, or the subscription to the Gum for funds from the Arts Council. Does anyone really give a rats about such minutia? I'm interested in knowing where my mone...

I recall a reference to flutes written in the 19th century, I think, that used the terms flat, concert, and sharp pitch. I'd assume the Taylors picked this terminology up and used it with their customers and students; or did Coyne make concert pitch stuff too...? A music dictionary from the 18th cen...

Hello all, I was wondering if it isin't true that most modern makers of wide bore concert pitch pipes are mostly trying to create instruments that cut through sessions and bands, through the noise of guitars, bodhrans, chitter chatter, etc. Like Gay McKeon's pipes, really really trebly and bright. W...