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Tex Senior User
Joined: 28 Oct 2006 Posts: 103
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Posted: Sun May 20, 2007 3:47 pm Post subject: How do you store your sackpipa when finished playing..... |
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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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Olle Site Admin
Joined: 21 Oct 2006 Posts: 435 Location: Uppsala, Sweden
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Posted: Sun May 20, 2007 8:49 pm Post subject: |
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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. _________________ Info on Swedish bagpipes at http://olle.gallmo.se/sackpipa
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Nic
Joined: 08 Dec 2006 Posts: 38 Location: Québec
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Posted: Mon May 21, 2007 12:32 am Post subject: |
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I put the instrument in a plastic bag... |
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Yuri Senior User
Joined: 16 Dec 2006 Posts: 149 Location: New Zealand
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Posted: Mon May 21, 2007 6:39 am Post subject: |
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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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Nic
Joined: 08 Dec 2006 Posts: 38 Location: Québec
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Posted: Mon May 21, 2007 1:02 pm Post subject: |
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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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Olle Site Admin
Joined: 21 Oct 2006 Posts: 435 Location: Uppsala, Sweden
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Anders
Joined: 15 Jan 2007 Posts: 4
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Posted: Mon May 21, 2007 2:30 pm Post subject: |
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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!
/Anders |
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Anders Jackson Senior User
Joined: 28 Nov 2006 Posts: 142 Location: Dalarna, Sweden
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Posted: Tue May 22, 2007 2:32 pm Post subject: |
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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). _________________ No MSN or ICQ. Only Jabber at <xmpp:anders.jackson@gmail.com>
Änd sorri får maj misspellingz, inglish is nått maj först language.
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Nic
Joined: 08 Dec 2006 Posts: 38 Location: Québec
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Posted: Wed May 23, 2007 12:19 pm Post subject: |
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Olle Gällmo wrote: | bamboo reeds? |
oops, my english have holes I mean cane reeds of course, sorry. |
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Aaron K. Holt Senior User
Joined: 01 Nov 2006 Posts: 291 Location: Pennsylvania
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Posted: Wed May 30, 2007 12:25 pm Post subject: |
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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. _________________ Aaron |
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Quimbisero
Joined: 28 Oct 2006 Posts: 61
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Posted: Fri Jun 08, 2007 3:59 pm Post subject: |
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Anders wrote: | Hi
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.
Eoghan _________________ Nzambi munzulu Nzambi muntoto. |
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Frédéric Vigouroux
Joined: 20 Jun 2007 Posts: 24 Location: France
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Posted: Sat Jun 23, 2007 9:17 pm Post subject: |
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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 ! _________________ Vigxf |
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