Hi everybody. I am a new member, mostly reading with interest the communications of other members. To justify my joining the group I thought I might share a...
Hello Yuri It is good to hear from you again, and welcome to the group. Something that you forget to mention is that your partner also plays the pipe and...
A diary note for all taborers. The 2006 International Pipe and Tabor Festival 14 -16 July. York We are lining up the most ambitious festival yet. The...
This is very interesting. Did they also play a drum along with the pipe? What kind? Years ago I saw Musikas play a number of pieces from the Bartok ...
Hi again. Reading through the archives, working my way backwards I've come across the discussion a couple of years ago about bone pipes. Now, I make my living...
Hi, Steve. What i also didn't mention is that I myself don't really play, even if I make the pipes my partner plays. Not out of any snobbishness, but because...
... spelling) ... I ... No, it's impossible to play any percussion as the piper has to use both hands, just as with the fujaras. The Hungarian ones don't have...
Very interesting information, and practical. We are thinking of having another bone pipe making workshop at the festival this year. In the past we used bones...
Thanks, Yuri. There's an interesting reference to what might be a gardon or simple string drum, in Balint Sarosi's book on Gypsy Music. Of course I have never...
... <blantonnick@y...> wrote: Zrinyi is probably referring to the psaltery, or possibly the turkish quanun, which is of course just another name for the ...
... for sure. Any heating process with the marrow still in the bone will make it soak into it. (I mean the marrow into the actual bone) As to making pipes,...
What do you use as a fipple in your Malham pattern pipes? The original is a sheep's tibia, if I remember right - my copy plays with a blutak fipple, but not to...
Dear Poul, many thanks for that - there are in fact a few English bone flutes that are decorated, but they are very very uncommon (around 5 from a total of...
... I have some tabors at the moment - I started making them last year to compliment my pipes. They're made with goatskin, with a single snare on one head. The...
Hi, this bone discussion is really interesting - I'm fascinated to read your methods of preparing the bone, as I do it slightly differently. I figured that...
The programme for the York International Pipe and Tabor Festival is beginning to take shape. I'm getting very excited about it, and it is still 9 months away....
... deer's shankbone. Since hare in NZ there are some 5 million deer on farms, it is not a problem to get some bone. I used a hardwood block, can't remember...
... pipe what I meant was the Keynsham Abbey pipe. Which is similar to the White Castle one. The Malham one is indeed made from sheep. So much for my...
... I have a couple of thought about the historical likeliness of boiling or roasting. Well, there is no meat whatsoever on deer shankbones, so they would have...
A word of warning here - Kiwi "white spirit" does NOT equal UK "white spirit" As an erstwhile antipodean I can vouch for the fact that Kiwi white spirit is...
... says "for use in gasoline lamps or stoves" The same label does not give the actual chemical formula, but the smell is definitely petroly, not alcoholy....
I was curious as to what "white spirits" might be as well. In the US we have a compound called Mineral Spirits... this is used as a paint thinner and paint...
the UK white spirit is (I think) the mildest solvent available. It's often used for cleaning paint brushes, and is available in DIY stores. It's not used as a...
As far as my chemistry background will stretch... In the UK and US White Spirits and Mineral spirits are the same thing - low density solvents - boiling point...
Hi. Well, I've had a look on the net, NZ pages. What I could find is that round here white spirit denotes definitely a petroleum oil distillate, not alcohol....
Hi, it's not an obvious oily residue - it's just if you're de-greasing/cleaning tools or equipment that need to be completely oil free, you'd use meths instead...
Sounds like you have the white spirits that is used as a solvent, rather than the fuel. There are three main grades of this, they are fairly complex mixes of ...
There are number of different compounds that you can use to clean organic matter. Methanol (Methylated Spirits) is a good solvent for greasy things, although...
... soda, DON'T use it. I have had a really bad experience with it. I've been given some horsebones. Now, horsebone is very greasy. So I put the lot into a...
Hi Steve, The plan you outline for the York festival is an exciting one and you are not alone in looking forward to it with eager anticipation. Looking first...
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