Norden Sackpipa Association of the Americas (NSAA)

On december 9th 2011 [url=http://folkeemmajosefina.se]Folke, Emma & Josefina released their first studio album, Kontakt (=Contact). It contains both traditional music (mostly from the allmost (in ...

I have used my "Texas reeds" now for a coupple of months. I play an Alban Faust set and I had the reed modified (by Seth) to fit the faust drone.

I mostly play my bagpipe in some sort of ...

My 19 month old daughter is squeaking away on my bagpipes! She loves them and ill try to encourage her to start playing when she understands what that is Smile

Congratulations to having a baby Seth!
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Here is a little piece recorded on a compact camera so the sound quality is not so good Smile

atleast you can see the A/D set. It is made of curly birch with plum and blackwood mounts. Drone set one octa ...

Got to love it Smile

If you switch the F#minor in the second part of Pelle Pettersson to D major, you get a really nice Dadd9 with the E drone Smile

That is if you have some other instrument to pick the D and A to get the co ...

As Olle said, you have to adjust the chanter to fit the reeds... His chanters are a bit longer than Albans.

Folke

True Olle it is carbon fibre in the chanter reed and some other synthetic material in the drone reed. I can't seem to remember what it is though. I'll post when I figure it out.

Folke

Actually I think its only 6mm , he said something about not making it to loud. He makes his own type of plastic reed that has alot of punch Smile

I'm going up to his place next friday, maybe he'll let ...

Hi

I have met and played Max Perssons A/D set Smile

Its kind of huge but it sounds really nice. It has one drone one octave below the chaanters bottom note. The stretch is comparaeble to a low D Whis ...