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anima
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 Posted: Sun Apr 04, 2010 2:55 am Post subject: Pictures of your pipes |
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This seems to be a popular thread on other bagpipe forums so I thought I'd start one here:
I don't have a Sackpipa yet (but I am starting to whine to my wife about wanting one)  Here are my other pipes in the meantime.....
Uilleann Pipes: Drones/Regs - cocobolo and brass, drone stock - cherry, chanter - mopane/boxwood (made by Kirk Lynch)
Gaita Galega: cocobola/boxwood (made by Patricia Cela)
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Olle
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Excellent topic suggestion! It is sticky now.
My two mouthblown Swedish bagpipes, in heart formation. Both in E/A by Alban Faust. The one on the left is younger and the one I currently play. Cherry wood and rings in bubinga, I think. The older set to the right is in plum.
My bellows blown Swedish bagpipe, by Alban Faust. Mazur birch, reindeer horn and bubinga. Three drones and two chanters in D/G (in the bag) and E/A (on the side).
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texasbagpiper
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This is the E/A set I play. I made it from Mopane and Indian ebony.
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anima
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texasbagpiper
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| Posted: Mon Apr 05, 2010 3:23 am Post subject: |
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| anima wrote: | | Interesting Seth, my uilleann chanter is mopane too, but it looks more like the color of cocobolo now. Is the shade of mopane variable? |
I'm not sure because this is the first time I've used mopane. Kirk may use a different type of finish or oil that causes it to be so dark. I buff with wax only. Seth |
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anima
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Högfeldt
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anima
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MatthewVanitas
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Mesquite D/G bellows-blown set with high key by Boris Favre:
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Aaron K. Holt
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Matt,
I think I may have just discovered the reasoning behind your post about finding better tuning bands. Those double holes are closer together than any I've seen before. I'll bet you can get a nice and smooth glissando from A to B when playing in a major scale. But like I said, I see your dilemma now. It looks like you would have a hard time using a rubber ring to cover your B-nat without affecting the tuning of the B-flat.
Try looking into some silicone stoppers like the ones discussed elsewhere on the forum (under the topic "Fine tuning the chanter"). You may find that you are happier using something like that rather than a band.
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texasbagpiper
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| Aaron K. Holt wrote: | Matt,
I think I may have just discovered the reasoning behind your post about finding better tuning bands. Those double holes are closer together than any I've seen before. I'll bet you can get a nice and smooth glissando from A to B when playing in a major scale. But like I said, I see your dilemma now. It looks like you would have a hard time using a rubber ring to cover your B-nat without affecting the tuning of the B-flat.
Try looking into some silicone stoppers like the ones discussed elsewhere on the forum (under the topic "Fine tuning the chanter"). You may find that you are happier using something like that rather than a band. |
I was thinking the same thing, before I read your post. He could also take a hold punch or sissors and snip a half section out of the flat band so it will leave the bottom hole open while closing the top hole. Just position the cut section of the band over the bottom hole. Doesn't look like it would need much. Does that make sense? I can draw a diagram. Seth |
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MatthewVanitas
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| Aaron K. Holt wrote: | Matt,
I think I may have just discovered the reasoning behind your post about finding better tuning bands. Those double holes are closer together than any I've seen before. I'll bet you can get a nice and smooth glissando from A to B when playing in a major scale. But like I said, I see your dilemma now. It looks like you would have a hard time using a rubber ring to cover your B-nat without affecting the tuning of the B-flat.
Try looking into some silicone stoppers like the ones discussed elsewhere on the forum (under the topic "Fine tuning the chanter"). You may find that you are happier using something like that rather than a band. |
I did actually write Boris about the closeness placement, but rather than me try to explain it I'll leave it to him. The closeness doesn't bother me as much on the left-middle-finger hole, since I play the top one straight and the bottom by "half-holing" the scallop. However on the left-index hole it's bothersome since I rarely use the upper hole, so am always trying to nudge the band to make sure it's sitting right.
I also need a better tuning band material for my tuning hole (right-pinky). It's just loose enough that it occasionally slips when I hit that hole for a C#.
Stoppers would be pretty cool actually; anyone have any input on how best to make them? |
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favrepipes
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| Posted: Wed Apr 13, 2011 10:51 pm Post subject: |
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As someone who makes pipes for different people there is always varying feedback and special requests to take into consideration. The double holes on swedish chanters are sometimes a problem for players with small or slim fingers where they find it difficult to seal both holes during play. Narrowing the gap and placing the holes at less of an angle is the obvious solution but it does make it more difficult to use rubber rings. It's a case of accommodating one thing at the cost of another.
Some other positive aspects of the closer holes is that it allows the player to lightly roll the finger and slide up to the next note without compromising the seal at the ring finger which can be a nice effect. It also places the left wrist square with the chanter which I find a little more comfortable.
I'm glad that this observation came up and I'll be sure to check with the customer from now on to see what their preference is. |
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Anders Jackson
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| MatthewVanitas wrote: |
Stoppers would be pretty cool actually; anyone have any input on how best to make them? |
If I remember correctly how they descirbed it last time I read about it.
I think they used silicone sealant or rubber and used the hole of the pipe as a mold.
They just put some grease that the silicone sealant wont stick to in the pipe hole. They used something called vaselin (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petroleum_jelly), but any grease that is easy to apply thin, remove and which silicone sealant will not stick to would do, I guess. It has to be spread thin in the hole (mold).
Then fill the greased hole with silicone sealant, wait for it to dry and then remove it. You could put some kinde of thread in it before it dry, so you have something to remove it with and then tie it (or glue?) to the chanter so you dont loose it.
Hope that it would give you some ideas on how to make them.
Have to take a photo of my 20-25 year old säckpipa (and bag) and upload here.
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noordung
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Hello! I don't have much to show yet, as far as "säckpipas" are concerned. But I would like to share with you the images of my other instruments. Here are the photos of my Istrian bagpipe called "mišnica", "mih" or "meh". It's a droneless instrument with a double-bore chanter. This type of the instrument is played mostly in the Croatian part of the peninsula and there are past records of its use in some border areas in the Slovenian part and the close neighbouring area. It shares many similarities with other double-bore droneless bagpipes of the Mediterranean area, the Balkans, northern Africa, etc. In the picture below, it's the one with a bag.
The instrument beside it is a double chanter called "šurle". These days, it is mostly known and used as an instrument of its own (by blowing into it). On rare occasions, one can see it tied to a bag and played like a bagpipe. This kind of an instrument is called "piva".
The pictures below show the current stage of my "swedish bagpipping". It's a chanter I've made of a bamboo. The story is quite simple. I just took a piece of a bamboo and wanted to see if anything useful can be made of it. My tools were pretty primitive. Including a saw, drills and a sharp knife. My initial idea was to follow this path and make a complete set just of a bamboo, with a saw, a couple of drills and not much more. However, I think I'll just leave this experiment as it is for now and put my hands on a lathe to try to do it "the right way". The chanter - in its current state - already started to give me some satisfaction by learning and playing some tunes from the internet. But It isn't quite the real thing, though. There's a lot left to learn.
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Black Rose
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This is the G/D chanter and some custom drones are on the way.
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The drones being made.
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Black Rose
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OK, one more set of pipes made to go with the sackpipa, by Bruce Childress for me.
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