Norden Sackpipa Association of the Americas (NSAA)

I have missed it. Great.

Thank you all for your kind answers and comments. I decided to make the mouthpiece of a separate piece of wood and treat it with linseed oil only. Just for a better feeling, I guess. Now, let's wait w ...

Alban uses horn, don't know about oil.
Börs-Anders uses linseed oil and turpentine last I checked, and so did Eriksson (who have stoped making pipes).

They might have changed, but I guess Olle G. ...

Or using a bit of horn from moose, elk, cow or something similary on top 5 cm of the mouth pices.

Not using the teeth is a good advice. I only someone have told me that way back when I stated, bef ...

I guess that most/all of the turpentine is gone when the finish has dried. The danger is for the one doing the finish.

The difference being, drilling precise, sometimes historical holes as opposed to using a close-enough wrench to loosen a bolt that already exists. If you were trying to machine a replacement bolt ...

I don't know about anyone else, but it seems like I can't play a tune all the way through when I know I'm being recorded. Tunes that I can usually play flawlessly suddenly seem foreign, and little thi ...

Black Rose, I don't really know what post you comment on, so I don't know the context. But my comments to your post would be

The bag and back vent should hold air like a football (soccer). You sho ...

A säckpipa is tuned with A at 440 Hz, or should. Smile

The tunes Olle sudgested are great beginners tunes, and Långdans från Sollerön is a great tune to dans to. Really easy steps.

The problems ...

I read this and giggle in sympathy with you...

Yeah, I know, it's sick.
If a friend would hit his toes so they nearly breaks, I would sit and feel his pain and laugh out load. And it is not in ...

To make a reed isn not that simple, but if you find Olle Gällmos web page, you will find a good instruction.

But I guess that you would really get good help from a experienced piper to get it right ...

Anders, how do you like English spelling? Makes no sense at all right?
I guess my signature gives me away on this, doesn't it? Smile

Many piping traditions, especially in Eastern Europe, are very ‘dialectical’. Different villages are known to have very different and distinct playing styles.
Swedish fiddlers certainly have a s ...

I just found a photo of the son, Louis Skifström in my (late) aunt's recipe book ???? of all places. The wedded couple appear to be dressed in late 19 th. Century attire. The photo was taken by phot ...

Played the Longdans fra Solleron with stav players and the dancers singing. Way cool. A dancer came to me and said "I've been dancing that dance for over 30 years and that was...wow...something ...

You have to ask the publisher...

I think if anyone were to draw a line they would have to use a very fat marker to do it. Even if only based on visual comparison, there are a number of differences between Leif's säckpipa and the muse ...

How do the rest of you makers solve this problem? Do you just take a working reed out of another chanter and then tune (drill) the holes according to it? It might be a bit tricky in case you don't hav ...

I went to the local Bicycle Inc shop which has everything you ever wanted for a bike, but of their hundreds of tubes they don't have one narrow enough to use on a chanter. I've looked but have yet to ...

Anders, also Leif Eriksson's pipes have much smaller finger holes than the historical instruments. Where's the limit when you would not call it Swedish anymore, and what do you call the instruments ma ...

With such holes you can do whatever you want with the fingers below, but, on the other hand, no crossfingering tricks like vibrato or strange semitones are possible any more.

Well, the are still ...

Olle has had some discussions with him about that, way back.

Faust did that modification on his own, because that was what he had been tough in Germany.

Faust is without any doubt a very skilled ...

Don't forget to ask for the colour of the tubes, before you buy it! You don't want to end up with pink or baby blue. Laughing

(never heard of any other colour than black Wink

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With Swedish bagpipes (Säckpipa) you can change between open, semi open and closed fingering in the same tunes. So in short, use what you think is usefull for you and the tunes.

Agree. Let the kids try, and you will see if it works.

I also want to say congratulations to Seth on becoming a parent!!!

Nice!

There are some tunes with both G and G#.
But I can't remember any names. It was during Falu Folk Music Festival (FFF) in Falun, Sweden when I attended a säckpipe course with Jan Winter and Bengt S ...

Thank you for the links. I really miss the Säckpipeträff in Gagnef. Sad

You should use metrics, like rest of the world Smile

If it makes any difference, it shouldn't be that much using metrics och Imperial units. For instance, an 1/2" combination wrench is between a ...

We could have a locked thread here where we write some information about which tunes are pipe friendly in folkwiki, with a links?

In that way we could have a sort of register with some more informa ...