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Tex
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PostPosted: Sun May 20, 2007 3:47 pm    Post subject: How do you store your sackpipa when finished playing..... Reply with quote

How do you store your sackpipa when finished playing for the day? When I first started playing I would always leave my chanter, drone and blow pipe in the bag and just put the instrument away. Than I would pick it up and just start playing again.
Than I began to worry about all moisture in the bag and tried taking the instrument apart when I finished playing. This causes my instrument to be wildly out of tune when I start playing so, far out of tune in fact I have to adjust the reeds. I play almost everyday for one hour and it is a mouth blown instrument.


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PostPosted: Sun May 20, 2007 8:49 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I just put it away, without removing chanter or drone. And my blow pipe has been stuck for 12 years, so removing that is not even an option.
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PostPosted: Mon May 21, 2007 12:32 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I put the instrument in a plastic bag...
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PostPosted: Mon May 21, 2007 6:39 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Doesn't that trap the moisture? I'd be reluctant to do that myself, but then I don't know really if it has any effect.
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PostPosted: Mon May 21, 2007 1:02 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I do that because I play every day. A friend of me, who have more than 120 differents pipes do that with every bagpipes (playable, not early instruments) with bamboo reed that he plays and never had problems.
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PostPosted: Mon May 21, 2007 2:27 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

bamboo reeds?
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PostPosted: Mon May 21, 2007 2:30 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Hi

When I played mouthblown säckpipa, I just put it away. One excepttion though, for the occasions when I had played for very many hours, and the bag was really soaked, then I took out the mouth-piece and the chanter and drone over the night.

At some times I stored it in a plastic bag when I was in extremely dry climate, but I got the impression that the moisture got to the reeds a bit too much then. Now I have converted all my pipes so I can play them bellows-blown, which I think makes life easy, and you can sing!

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PostPosted: Tue May 22, 2007 2:32 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I have two chanter pipes, so one is in a wooden case and the other in the bag.
To have the chanter in bag is better, I think. As it protect the reed best.

Never had any problems (I guess skinn "breath", as it isn't plastic).
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PostPosted: Wed May 23, 2007 12:19 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Olle Gällmo wrote:
bamboo reeds?


oops, my english have holes Razz I mean cane reeds of course, sorry.
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PostPosted: Wed May 30, 2007 12:25 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I usually dry out my blowpipe and its stock, and then put a cork in the stock. I put the bagpipe back in the box like that with the blowpipe disconnected. I keep the chanter and drone in their stocks. I use the cork to keep a lot of the moisture from escaping. Now that the weather is getting warmer, I won't be using the cork for a while.
If its a humid day, or if I've been playing a lot longer than usual, I'll dry out all of the stocks before I put it away.

I also keep a humidifier in my case, together with a little shot glass containing a wadded-up napkin soaked in water. I find that the reeds really like that in winter. One time this winter when it was very dry, I forgot to put the humidifiers back in the box. The next time I went out to play, the reeds just howled and screeched.
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PostPosted: Fri Jun 08, 2007 3:59 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Anders wrote:
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Now I have converted all my pipes so I can play them bellows-blown, which I think makes life easy, and you can sing!

/Anders


I've played bellows blown pipes for decades. It has not helped my signing one bit. Wink

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PostPosted: Sat Jun 23, 2007 9:17 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Hi !
I play the boha, which has two single reads, and a natural skin. I have been told to let dry the chanter before store it in a aerate box, but it seems to me that sound and tune are better when i store it in a bag. Your reply tell i was probably right…
The evidence is not always the good solution !
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