I've found this thread fascinating, as I have also experienced strain on the
wrists - strain generally in fact - when playing a set where the bag neck is
too short, and consequently have started to use bags (from Jackie Boyce)
with long necks when making my pipes. This keeps the chanter well
As I understand it, the shape you get if a cartoonist wants to depict a
drop of water: pointy top smoothly widening to rounded belly shape, and
in my mind, the top is not straight but bends off to the side the
chanter's going to go. Again, like the cartoon drop of water.
If I'm wrong, someone
Hello Philip and others,
Reading your post again brought to mind that I had completely forgotten to
suggest a significant advantage of the inside-out bag. With the seam inside the
neck, the neck is very much less liable to constriction with all the consequent
advantages of strangulation.
I
. . . . with all the consequent advantages of strangulation.
I might possibly have meant 'disadvantages'.
Francis
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On 28 Jan 2010, Gibbons, John wrote:
...strangulation
Depends on the piper...
We also have a choice of necks
Do I detect a Northumberland's most wanted column somewhere?
grin
Julia
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On 28 Jan 2010, at 13:16, Julia Say wrote:
Do I detect a Northumberland's most wanted column somewhere?
Something along these lines, perhaps?:
I've got a little list, I've got a little list
Of Society offenders who might well be underground,
And who never would be missed, they never would be
Mr Bewick, the ingenious wood-engraver, has put on record a fact regarding
rats nearly as mystical as any of the above. He alleges that ' the skins of
such of them as have been devoured in their holes [for they are cannibals to
a sad extent] have frequently been found curiously turned
On 28 Jan 2010, at 18:25, Dave S wrote:
the wind blows hard enough
to turn dogs inside out
Enthusiasts of the zaqq (Maltese bagpipes) should take note:
The bag was traditionally made of (preferably) dogskin, but goat- and
calfskin were also used; there are ethnographic reports that skins
On 28 Jan 2010, Francis Wood wrote:
Enthusiasts of the zaqq (Maltese bagpipes) should take note:
The bag was traditionally made of (preferably) dogskin,
The Fenwick tutor (1896) for nsp, page 10, 1st paragraph an airtight bag made
of
sheep, calf or dog skin
It is a fate used as an
On 28 Jan 2010, Anita Evans wrote:
I have a feeling you somehow inflate the carcass
(while still warm) to separate the skin from the innards and then pull
it all out, possibly through the rear end?
Aren't those E. European pipes which I tend to associate with Dirk Campbell
generally tied
This is similar to a technique I tried once, where I painted part of
my body with latex. I was then able to peel the latex off, seal up
the seams, et, viola, an air tight latex bag with a built in neck
ready to receive the chanter stock. The neck was perfectly suited for
producing the greatest
This made the rounds awhile back but also shows the origins
www.youtube.com/watch?v=eKdGO8OeaZI
Best wishes to all (except those partially covered with latex - those
deserve what they get)
Steve
On 1/28/10 4:58 PM, Anita Evans an...@evansweb.co.uk wrote:
I picked this at random on
Steve Bliven wrote:
This made the rounds awhile back but also shows the origins
www.youtube.com/watch?v=eKdGO8OeaZI
yes! thanks Steve, I had a dim memory of watching this but couldn't find
it. I am both fascinated and appalled, but there's no escaping the truth...
--
Anita Evans
To get
PS 'Inverted' is upside down; inside out is 'everted'.
Ask any topologist, or classicist...
John
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says, inter alia,
Traditionally the bags are made from goat hides that are removed from
the slaughtered animal in one piece, cured, turned inside out, then
tied off just in front of the rear legs, one of the front legs serving
to
This video also shows the universal aspect of piping: No matter what
type of pipes, the faster the music, the more we flail away at the
bellows!
Alec
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Julia Say wrote:
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