What a good idea.
I must confess to liking CDs to hear what tunes sound like (being very poor
at reading dots - fine on the actual notes but poor on phrasing, length
etc - especially when new to the tune).
I find that a Midi of a tune works well enough to give a rough idea what it
sounds like i
The NPS has just published a small tune book inpsired by the Boulting
brothers who found they couldn't join in at a session I was leading at
the North American Pipers' Convention at Killington in 2007. They asked
a number of pipers to contribute their collection of 30 tunes that they
thought sh
Yup, agreed! I have been using the same reamer in the same place for all
the original chanter blanks. In the end it was a reed issue that changed
the course of my itterations as there was too much length in the blades that
was causing terrible flatness in the top hand.
I seem to have it now (jus
Dear Alec,
The secret is to stick to one reamer that is inserted to exactly the
same position for each chanter you make and you may get consistent
results as you jockey the hole positions around with subsequent
chanters you make. Even then the quality of the wood will affect the
tuning so y
The best person to comment on this would be Richard Johnstone who has
been using them in schools on loan from the Sage, Gateshead who had
them made from a grant awarded some years ago where they had £25,000 to
make 100 sets which obviously limited what could be done with £250 per
set. What turn
I've been having a go at making a Border chanter in 'A'. I've measured and
collected plans for chanters and had five different designs to study and try
and work out how the thing ticks.
I bored and turned 7 chanters in order to do some fingerhole itteration. My
first attempt was based on my coll
On 8 Mar 2009 at 12:23, Dave S wrote:
> Barry, There used to be a site run by Gerit Raith having plans for a
> cornemuse in F (alto kortholt) but I can't seem to track it down -- if
> you are interested in this windcap instrument I may be a ble to dig out
> the plans from an archive I have som
Barry, There used to be a site run by Gerit Raith having plans for a
cornemuse in F (alto kortholt) but I can't seem to track it down -- if
you are interested in this windcap instrument I may be a ble to dig out
the plans from an archive I have somewhere -- let me know if you would
like me to
