Norden Sackpipa Association of the Americas (NSAA)

Andreas makes nylon bags? Shocked

Are there any photos in the net?

http://www.cornemuses.culture.fr/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=183&Itemid=97&x=-703

very impressive video!

I think we should put some substance (that collect moisture) in this plastic tube. Maybe something like selicagel...like in GHB:
in drones they use drone-valves
http://www.bagpipejourney.com/images/ ...

Maybe you can try some kind of water traps....they won't solve all the problems but make them easyer I guess....

Can it be possible to re-make some GHB-watertraps for sackpipa Question

The reason of ...

As Alexey said me, this drone is E.
The chenter range is:
D-E-F#-G-G#-A-B-C#-D-E

http://tempfornavi.nm.ru/sackpipa.JPG

This Sackpipa is made by my friend Alexey Palagin (Moscow).

The wood is pear, boiled in oil and polished with shellac.
The mouthpiece - horn.
The bag is m ...

I guess that this is a kind of tuning sistem for the last hole on this sackpipa? Can anybody comment it?

http://www.pipeshow.net/images/Vignettes%20et%20images%20grande%20taille/Images%20grande%20t ...

http://www.uilleann-pipes.de/images/cat/schaefer6-2.jpg

this is a good idea too...

one valve for each drone in the bottom of the drones.
and one valve for all stock....

http://www.uilleann.us/kevin/28.jpg

When you press the stop key, you pull small rod (that is inside the tube) that ends with a valve (here - with rubber ring).
This valve plugs the whole where air ...

try this pdf file (about 7,5 mb):
http://billhaneman.ie/HollowStock.pdf
this is about UP drone stock. very detailed.

in my sackpipa this mechanism is much more easy

I can send you a drowing of ...

I had the same problem last winter.

When I seasoned my bag, the problem disappeared.
I used rather many seasoning. Much more then Alban recomended, but now its ok.

Tha problem can be not only i ...

WOW! I want to look at them...and to listen Rolling Eyes

I talked to Jurgen Ross about Shepherd reeds. He said that GHB and SP drone reeds will not work in sackpipa because they made to produce only on ...

What makes them all sound different?

You know, I heard a lot of Belorus bagpipes (duda), and I would say that their sound is very similar to swedish pipes.
http://staryolsa.com/img/instrumenty/du ...

about a months we have unusual hot weather +3..+5 . its very hot for Moscow January.

Michael , could you please share a photo with us?

Frost, I tried to find there, but found only rimur...

Take a clarinet reed
But in this case it will react on humidity...

I'm thinking of buying Shepherd smallpipes drone reeds..I really dont think that it will work without major remaking, but I mus ...

Idoheby, if you want to try making composite reeds, you should not copy the measures from natural reeds. All composite reeds I have seen are much smaller than they would have had to be if cut the natu ...

How do you ensure that It stays the way you adjusted it?
ehh...by ears....and e-tuner

With the time its easyer for the tongue to remember the position.
So with the time its easyer to keep reed ...

but I have a very hard time lowering it.
Maybe you opened it too much. I have this problem when crack goes behind the 'eye' (ohh my english..)

By the way, I allways try to exclude heating from my ...

And, to be honest, your problem with upper C is just too weird for me. I would not think it possible for that note to be as flat as you say.

Olle, this is truth. I checked it with e-tuner.
With so ...

Do anybody have an experience with impregnanting the reeds with oil? maybe it can help...
I asked Alban about it. He said that he never do it...because he dont need it..

"reconstructed" performances of Eddaic poetry called "Edda: Myths from medieval Iceland" and "The Rhinegold Curse"

Thank you! It seems to me that I heared about them a ...

Thank you Liraman! Something with the picture of a bagpipe. I can not see it...
How is it possible to contact Sigurður Rúnar Jónsson?

I like your Hurdy Gurdy avatar, I'm making one of these right now... Lots of fun..

Ohh! Thank you, Thank you! Nobody paid attention to my avatars before it =). I make it myself in photoshop and I c ...

Stuart thank you very mutch for this link!

I'm playing with making a brass and plastic reed for the sackpipa based on eric reswig's ones for his ssp.
I'm very interested in it. Could you share the photos or maybe plans...

So, you probably want to keep the bag almost completely filled all the time. Pumping with a regular beat every 3 seconds or so is quite normal.
Im so happy about it Very Happy

1.5 notes? Are you sure? Yo ...

Could somebody tell me about this topic?
What music is typical for Iceland?
I heard only about singing (rimur..or smth like this..)
What instruments?

Is there any sites about? (in english)

I'll try.
Basicly I hve two variants: Sackpipa is in tune but VERY unstable (sensitiv to pressure). or Sackpipa is Very stable but absolutely out of tune Smile

I can solve problems, discribed on yor ...

I have had minimal problems after changing to "wet blown reeds"

You mean, that you use w-b-r in bellow blown sackpipa?
In that case I have a question: what is the difference between w- ...