i've got a new, throaty sounding, synthetic reed - mainly in the lower register. sounds like a duck-call. i've been gradually sanding back the upper half to...
Hi Jess, There is a big difference between jamming with a bunch of people, and playing at a public performance. Your playing with other musicians will only...
dear adrian - ecco me qua ... the reed supplier you mention must be within the EU as goods coming from outside the community - musical items in particular -...
Hello If you have the book 'Beginning the Bagpipe'would you mind recording each line on page 18, G,D E Gracenote combinations and sending them along in email? ...
on the rec.music.early group on google, there's some interesting responses to the question of whether pipes made it to america with initial colonization from...
Hello, All: Just got back from the Athena Caledonian Games in Athena, Oregon. That's in the NE corner of the state, near Pendleton. This is a small games,...
first post: my name is bill, i live in a little village in toscana and i recently fell under the spell of the pipes - a single drone, medieval pipe from...
I have two questions for those physics minded wizards: First, what do you do when your high A and low A are perfect, but your E is flat? Second: I have a tenor...
Can someone provide me with the music for this March? (Unless it would be a copyright infringement) I want to play it this weekend for my wife's family...
Yikes! Bill, learn to play the Pipes, very well, and then maybe, perhaps, possibly, start fiddling around with alterations to a set. I have seen more than a...
as an absolute beginner (still waiting delivery of my pipes) i'd like to know what would happen in one were to change - re-bore - a set of conical pipes into...
Hi, I am not sure if this is it. All the best. ... _________________________________________________________________ Download MSN Messenger emoticons and...
this may be already known to everyone but here's an interesting on- line radio show featuring contemporary - mostly folkish - pipes from all over the place: ...
Hi All, Just listened to pipe line on BBC Raddio Scotland,or should say A bit of A Blow it's called for the next 6 weeks with Gary West taking leave.The show...
Hello. I assume I'd need a special chanter and reed to play in tune with the rest of the world - I guess where our "low A" is really B flat at 466 Hz, rather...
I am interested in tapping my chanter so I can "screw" in my reeds. From what I hear, this makes it very easy to make small controlled adjustments of the reed....
rumor has it that the tuscans are celtic in origin - my irish wife suspects it and i've heard some of the locals say it's so. any informed opinion on the...
bought a thracian gaida in "D" this morning from bulgariana.com.. all i have to do now is wait patiently and maintain the outward appearance of a mature,...
Hello Duncan. Welcome. I'm a new player and new to the group as well. You wouldn't happen to know a Tonya Stanwyck by chance? She came to the US for a year of...
Gday folks just joined group again after a few years away.Thought I would introduce myself.My name is Duncan and Play with The Shadow Highlanders here in Perth...
Hi to the group I have been blowing on my chanter for a week now, hope I live to 120 so I can at least get past the SCALE. Any way thanks for letting me join...
So, I am to believe Lars Sloan and Jeremy Freeman are playing burls incorrectly? Both use the tap and draw or double-tap. Not to mention I know Jeremy...
