From: owner-bagpipe-digest@lists.xmission.com (bagpipe-digest) To: bagpipe-digest@lists.xmission.com Subject: bagpipe-digest V1 #63 Reply-To: bagpipe-digest Sender: owner-bagpipe-digest@lists.xmission.com Errors-To: owner-bagpipe-digest@lists.xmission.com Precedence: bulk bagpipe-digest Monday, September 13 1999 Volume 01 : Number 063 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 13 Sep 1999 02:52:08 GMT From: alex_young@my-deja.com Subject: (bagpipe) Fun With Altitude Hi all, I just got back from the Estes Park Highland Games. I suppose I should have posted this *before* I left but I'll be interested to hear what people have to say after the fact. When I went to Estes, I'd had some previous experience playing at altitude, but I guess I hadn't played that high before. My big problem was the same I'd experienced to a lesser extent at slightly lower altitudes; my chanter was way sharp on the high hand. I finally brought it into decent tune with itself, but all the tape on the high hand, in combonation with the fairly easy (i.e. low medium) reed I was playing made me sound terribly thin. I was playing a higgins reed, but experimented with some sheperds and a Gilmore (from Australia) reed while I was up there and none of them seemed to do any better. Anyway, the long and the short of it is that the Grade 3 competition I played in sounded like some of the lower end Grade 4s I've heard in the past (we won't talk about what Grade 4 sounded like...) :-). But the grade 2 guys seemed to have it figured out... fairly bright chanters, although most of them choked at least once in MSR just because it was so hard to catch your breath up there, I suppose. Any suggestions for the future? Any particular brand of chanter reed that seems to work better than others up there? Thanks for the help, Alex Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/ Share what you know. Learn what you don't. - - To unsubscribe to bagpipe, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" with "unsubscribe bagpipe" in the body of the message. For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message. ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 12 Sep 1999 20:50:43 -0700 From: Andrew & Kristen Lenz Subject: (bagpipe) Re: who's in charge Well, my wife encouraged me to take up the pipes, so now she can't really complain that much. But I know I'm on the verge of practicing enough when she says, "Sometimes I wish I never wanted you to start the pipes!" ;-) Andrew - -- Andrew & Kristen Lenz alenz@alumni.cse.ucsc.edu Santa Cruz, California U.S.A. - - To unsubscribe to bagpipe, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" with "unsubscribe bagpipe" in the body of the message. For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message. ------------------------------ Date: 13 Sep 1999 05:56:26 GMT From: bagpiip@aol.com (SENDMEMORESPAM) Subject: (bagpipe) Re: Reed Maker Flees Workshop! >In closing , let me reiterate another's post and compliment you for >appearing, acknowledging the observations, and offering many good hints and >kinks. I'd like to say Thanks too! Not many would bother coming here and giving the advice. Bill Mar a bha, mar a tha, mar a bhitheas gu brath, ri tra'ghadh's ri lionadh. - - To unsubscribe to bagpipe, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" with "unsubscribe bagpipe" in the body of the message. For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message. ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 12 Sep 1999 23:30:34 -0500 From: bogart@centuryinter.net (Lloyd Bogart) Subject: (bagpipe) Re: CONStrictiON Yes, it sounds like that would work, and many folks (myself included) have had a blowpipe truned from plastic, with a large bore, or had a blowpipe lined with larger bore brass tubing. But in the cases I mentioned, the bore of the blowpipe was fine, as was the valve -- only the mouthpiece was causing the problems. In one case the *mouthpiece* was a replacement, and in the other (the smallest bore) it was the original to the pipes. BTW the cheerful one finished a parade toay with a big grin on her face, and had the never-before problem of overblowing her reed. She's breaking in a stronger reed this week. The important thing is that a mouthpiece problem may go unrecognized for a considerable period of time, and especially by newer pipers. A too small bore is easy to find if you know what it *should be*, but most people buy pipes and quite reasonably might expect that a mouth- piece bore would be standard -- Cheers Lloyd ***** In article <37DC4D90.AACD6584@igc.org>, Bruce wrote: > I made a great blowpipe out of a piece of 1/2" pvc pipe. I heated the mouth > end and flattened it to fit my lips. The outside is fit with a turned wooden > sleeve that matches my bagpipe. The nether end has a leather flap valve. It > was cheap, very non-constricting, and will never ever rot! Best wishes, Bruce > Bush > > Lloyd Bogart wrote: > > > This week brought home an old lesson: check *everything*. > > Not all pipes- or pipe parts- are created equal. > > > > The previous week an experienced band member was struggling, > > couldn't work out the nature of the problem, and asked me to give > > his pipes a blow, hoping for an opinion of what to do next. They'd > > been seasoned, had no leaks, reeds were not too open, valve OK, etc. > > > > Guess what? -- *this* long-time piper was struggling with > > those pipes too. > > > > The culprit was the *mouthpiece*. The bore was a mere 1/4 inch. > > In my own pipes the mouthpiece bore measures 5/16 inch, and > > what a difference that additional 16th of an inch makes! It was > > a *strain* to get those other pipes up to pressure, and to maintain > > it. > > > > The temporary answer was to 'borrow' a different blowpipe, but this > > last week I brought to practice a small *battery-powered* hand > > drill, a leather glove, and a set of *sharp* drill bits: 1/4 inch , 17/64" > > 9/32" and 5/16 inch . It was a few minutes work to remove the > > mouthpiece and open it up in *gradual increasing stages*. (This > > requires drilling from both ends, in longer mouthpieces.) Next I > > took an intense personal interest in a few other sets of pipes > > in the room. Wow -- I found another mouthpiece that had > > a *smaller than 1/4 inch bore*. The owner is a cheerful and > > unprotesting person who apparently thought her pipes *should* > > be that difficult. She's even more cheerful now, and blowing a lot > > steadier. > > > > So: use a 1/4 inch drill bit as a guage, and see where your own > > mouthpiece bore is, in the grand scheme of things. And check out > > those spares in the drawer, while you're at it. Bigger may not > > always be better, but in this case.....? > > > > Oh, and by the way, I *wouldn't* that is:*would NOT* and DO NOT > > RECOMMEND using a standard electric drill, or even a larger-size > > rechargeable drill, if you decide to do this. They have MUCH too much > > power, and if you get into trouble, it could be nasty. If no small > > rechargeable drill is available, it would be better to clamp each > > drill bit in a vise grip, hold the mouthpiece tightly, and ream out > > the bore by hand...a bit tedious but much safer. The use of the > > leather glove, when using the drill in this way, is left as an exercise > > for the reader. Some sort of clamp that won't mark the mouthpiece > > would be even better. > > > > Oh, I suppose you *could* just order a new *Big-Bore* mouthpiece, > > but where's the fun in that? > > > > Lloyd > > ***** - - To unsubscribe to bagpipe, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" with "unsubscribe bagpipe" in the body of the message. For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 13 Sep 1999 12:52:20 GMT From: Bill Carr Subject: (bagpipe) Low G on PC Does anyone know how I can flatten the Low G on a standard size practice chanter? I don't mean reed manipulation. Should altering the bore of the chanter, from the low A hole to the end of the chanter, have any effect on the pitch of the low G? Thanks Bill Carr - - To unsubscribe to bagpipe, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" with "unsubscribe bagpipe" in the body of the message. For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 13 Sep 1999 09:43:39 GMT From: Bill Carr Subject: (bagpipe) New Model Shepherd Reeds New model http://dspace.dial.pipex.com/shepherd-bagpipes/drone.htm BC - - To unsubscribe to bagpipe, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" with "unsubscribe bagpipe" in the body of the message. For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 13 Sep 1999 09:50:12 -0400 From: Bob Cameron Subject: (bagpipe) Re: Contracts & Deposits Zu, I use a contract consistently, and have done so since I first started playing for hire on a regular basis, about ten years ago. My contract is based on a standard AFM9 (musicians' union) contract, and contains language about recording the performance, severance details, place, time. music details clauses, etc. I have a clause regarding the deposit (I only request $25 to reserve the date). If the client cancels, they may apply the deposit to another engagement within one year. If severe weather or natural disaster were to make it impossible for me to complete the engagement, then I return their deposit. I also have a clause which states that the agreement expires in a certain amount of time if the signed contract and deposit is not returned. I'm considering adding a clause regarding late starts, after having a wedding start one and a half hour late- the bride was dawdling, and it was lucky I only had one wedding to play that day)... In 10+years. I've never had a gig turned down because the client did not want a contract. on short notice, I have faxxed or E-mailed contracts. The only times I've been stiffed on a gig were on last minute calls for which no contract was signed. - - To unsubscribe to bagpipe, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" with "unsubscribe bagpipe" in the body of the message. For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 13 Sep 1999 09:59:30 -0400 From: Bob Cameron Subject: (bagpipe) Re: I hate to ask again, but ... Maybe you should write to the Scots Dragoon Guards, then. The music you seek is almost certainly copyright protected. I believe Eric Rigler was the piper for bnoth movie scors, so he may be another possible source. Uwe Frank wrote: > Hi, > it must be written for the GHB since I heard it played by the Royal Scotch > Dragoons at a festival here in Germany ... > > Uwe > > Meggwalk schrieb in im Newsbeitrag: > 19990911223540.00620.00007283@ng-fn1.aol.com... > > Now forgive me for it has been awhile since I have seen the movie, is this > a > > GHB tune or a smallpipe tune? BTW there's no real difference between GHB tunes and SSP tunes- same scales used in both, though the SSP settings tend to use more upper hand ornaments ( gracenotes, higher doublings) rather than the grips,throws, taorluaths etc, used on the GHB- because the high hand is stronger on the SSP while the lowhand is stronger on the GHB, volume wise. - - To unsubscribe to bagpipe, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" with "unsubscribe bagpipe" in the body of the message. For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 13 Sep 1999 10:37:48 -0400 From: Bob Cameron Subject: (bagpipe) Re: Small pipes I have seen, heard and played Hamish Moore pipes recently at North Hero. They are exquisite, and people who wown them are quite happy with them. His waiting period has come down some, BTW. I have no experience with Ray Sloan's work. If you're looking specifically for Scottish Small pipes, you should by all means check out Ian Kinnear's work as well- very good quality at a decent price. Of the small pipes I saw and handled at N. Hero, I'd have to say that Michael Dows were the most elegantly engineered pipes there, but I did not get a chance to play them. They are also among the most expensive. Whatever you do, don't buy a set because it's less expensive, unless you can try it fiorst and you like it. I bought a set last year for about £600 (UK pounds ) from a well-reputed piper and tune collector. ( I'll leave his name out for now) The pipes were not in playing condition- in fact they were more of a kit than a set of pipes . After sending them out to a reliable pipemaker, who had to re-bore and polish the drones, re-work the chanter, and do in all 10 operations to the pipes, Iwill finally have a decent set of Lowland pipes in A. This was after I had fixed a leaky, improperly tied-in bag, overhauled the bellows, and spent about another $100 in reeds etc. At North Hero, I picked up a set of Lowland pipes made by Jon Swayne, and they just leaped into life in my hands- I guess that's what makes them worth the money they cost. My current plan is to play the re-built, or should I say completed pipes untill I get the Swaynes in two years, then sell or trade them. The short version- don't buy before you try. If at all possible, see if you casn try a set on approval. Maryvon RIBOULET wrote: > Can anybody tell me wether there is a big difference of sound and agreement > between the said top maker Hamish Moore and the other wellknown maker Ray > Sloan, as Moore's prices and delay are quite twice from the Sloan's one ? > Thank you for any informations regarding that matter. > > Jean-Marie PONSODA from Marseille, France > > Maryvon_RIBOULET@wanadoo.fr - - To unsubscribe to bagpipe, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" with "unsubscribe bagpipe" in the body of the message. For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 13 Sep 1999 09:53:34 -0300 From: "dnimmo" Subject: (bagpipe) Re: High A trouble Meggwalk wrote in message <19990912220836.16324.00004510@ng-fh1.aol.com>... >Just for perspective, listen to some of the top pipers in the world and you >will hear that caw on high a alot. It is a desirable trait in some circles. It >is my preferance as well so I do not know how to get rid of it. Yes.........this is something I am having truble wrapping my brain around........ Is it that there is so little control of it available, and as we rise in chanter pitch that we have reached the limits of the frequency range................. so the top pipers have managed to turn it into a "desireable feature" rather than fight it.................we work so hard at getting pleasant combinations of harmonics, etc for everything else and then we look upon this other as a positive? I'm confused .................. (again) In words no bigger than "marmalade" can you tell us WHY this is a good characteristic of a reed ? Thanks in advance. David - - To unsubscribe to bagpipe, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" with "unsubscribe bagpipe" in the body of the message. For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 13 Sep 1999 08:32:49 -0700 From: "Todd" Subject: (bagpipe) Re: New Model Shepherd Reeds Nice Bill, But, do they actually HAVE any of the new reeds made? The reed in the picture is a computer Model! Cheers Todd Bill Carr wrote in message news:37DB7399.875215B9@of.telia.no... > New model > > http://dspace.dial.pipex.com/shepherd-bagpipes/drone.htm > > > BC - - To unsubscribe to bagpipe, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" with "unsubscribe bagpipe" in the body of the message. For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 13 Sep 1999 13:02:49 -0500 From: Mike Talcott Subject: (bagpipe) Re: who's in charge Five and a half years ago my wife plopped a set of Pakis in my hands for Christmas, having remembered I said something about wanting to learn. The pipes stayed, she left a little over two years ago, and I replaced the Pakis with a decent set. I haven't found a decent replacement for the wife yet. Pipes 3, spouses 0. MT Andrew & Kristen Lenz wrote: > Well, my wife encouraged me to take up the pipes, so now she can't > really complain that much. But I know I'm on the verge of practicing > enough when she says, "Sometimes I wish I never wanted you to start the > pipes!" ;-) > > Andrew > -- > Andrew & Kristen Lenz > alenz@alumni.cse.ucsc.edu > Santa Cruz, California U.S.A. - - To unsubscribe to bagpipe, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" with "unsubscribe bagpipe" in the body of the message. For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 13 Sep 1999 18:48:18 GMT From: Bill Carr Subject: (bagpipe) Re: who's in charge Didn't someone say, "A Piper marries his pipes and lives in sin with his wife? Bill Carr Mike Talcott wrote: > Five and a half years ago my wife plopped a set of Pakis in my hands for > Christmas, having remembered I said something about wanting to learn. The > pipes stayed, she left a little over two years ago, and I replaced the > Pakis with a decent set. I haven't found a decent replacement for the wife > yet. > > Pipes 3, spouses 0. > > MT > > Andrew & Kristen Lenz wrote: > > > Well, my wife encouraged me to take up the pipes, so now she can't > > really complain that much. But I know I'm on the verge of practicing > > enough when she says, "Sometimes I wish I never wanted you to start the > > pipes!" ;-) > > > > Andrew > > -- > > Andrew & Kristen Lenz > > alenz@alumni.cse.ucsc.edu > > Santa Cruz, California U.S.A. - - To unsubscribe to bagpipe, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" with "unsubscribe bagpipe" in the body of the message. For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 13 Sep 1999 12:18:58 -0700 From: "Corey Keller" Subject: (bagpipe) Re: red and white WINE STRICTLY KOSHER Landzmensch!!(sp?) Nu? Corey Keller - - To unsubscribe to bagpipe, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" with "unsubscribe bagpipe" in the body of the message. For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 13 Sep 1999 21:14:56 GMT From: alex_young@my-deja.com Subject: (bagpipe) Re: Fun With Altitude In article <37dd04a3.0@flint.sentex.net>, "Blair" wrote: > Going to display my ignorance again, but how else can I learn. > > I don't understand what's happenening here, I guess. Is it the case that > when you seat your chanter reed out to bring the hi A an octave above the > low A, the other notes on the top hand need more tape than they would at > lower altitudes? The other possibility that I can see is that the lower > notes on the top hand become flat (relatively), and you have to push the > reed in to satisfy them, and then have to tape the higher notes. > > Sorry to be asking rather than answering, but my curiosity is piqued. > > ....Blair > No, I don't move my chanter in the reed seat at all (to begin with). Some quality of the high altitude air makes the high hand sharper than the low hand. This inequality remains the same no matter how much you pull out or push in the reed (in my experience). Hope that answers your question, Alex Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/ Share what you know. Learn what you don't. - - To unsubscribe to bagpipe, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" with "unsubscribe bagpipe" in the body of the message. For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 13 Sep 1999 16:20:41 -0600 From: sdon Subject: (bagpipe) Re: New revelation today! Mave, If you are 5' tall, a 9 inch bag may still be a little big.. I can probbably have you one custom made for less than an L&M that might work even better. Don Maeve wrote: > Continued, in part, from the last long post! Again, since I have been able > to whine to so many good people here about my handicaps, I received BITS of > information that allowed me to correct problems that I have been having > with piping. The handicap that I have is that I am VERY small . .. 5' tall > with proportionately sized hands. Piping has ALWAYS been a chore and a > trial for me. My first set came to me set up for a 6' tall piper! They are > Dunbars and I love them but my teacher and I had to cut the neck back > almost to the drones so that I could reach the chanter. Even with this, I > couldn't hit Low G's or birls well at all. My Dunbars were always like > wrestling an octopus for me but I persevered and played. The joke between > my teacher and me was that I am the Chanter Queen. I can do anything > perfectly on the chanter but couldn't get it to the pipes! Being given this > set of Sinclairs might have been my piping salvation. Again, I have > expressed in the past that my teacher is not to blame here for things that > get overlooked. With a simple question posed to me by someone here, I have > made BIG changes that have been nothing more than positive! The suggestion: > How about a smaller bag? Since I had to put a new bag on the Sinclairs, I > ordered a smaller one (9") and the difference was clear from the get-go. > Now that the drone thing is solved and the chanter reeds are right, I am > happily playing IN CONTROL for the first time! Now, the revelation that > came to me this morning that MIGHT be a help to some other poor, struggling > beginner. While I was playing the last couple of days, I noticed that my > hands were, as usual, falling asleep. I noticed that I had a death grip on > my chanter. I noticed, for the first time, that when I turned loose of the > chanter, my bag didn't fall to the floor!!!!!! I realized that, for the > last year, I have been supporting the BAG with the chanter because my arm > would not go around it and support it! It was SO amazing to me that 1) you > adjust to any situation naturally, right or wrong 2) freeing up my hands > gave me SO much more flexibility that I have been able to hit EVERY low G > without fail! 3) sometimes, even your teacher will not catch on to the > problems since they have never faced them before. When I loosened my death > grip, the tunes that I played on the practice chanter flowed as well on the > pipes! My heart is fluttering with joy today with this new freedom. I am > sure that it will take a few days to adjust to this completely but I am > loving it and am still walking around with my mouth on the floor . . . it > is that dramatic of a change! Hope this helps someone else who might not be > realizing what the problem is here. > -- > Love and Light be with you, > Maeve . . . still in a state of awe! > http://people.delphi.com/terralyn > terride@sanctum.com - -- PIPER AT LARGE (sdon@utah.uswest.net) White Peaks Pipe Band http://www.angelfire.com/ut/sdon/index.html - - To unsubscribe to bagpipe, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" with "unsubscribe bagpipe" in the body of the message. For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 13 Sep 1999 23:54:30 GMT From: pmlerwick@wavetech.net (Royce Lerwick) Subject: (bagpipe) Re: Reed Maker Flees Workshop! On Mon, 13 Sep 1999 03:41:27 -0700, Mark Wygent wrote: >We have been working on a section of our website to be >devoted exclusively to reed manipulation. It is in the >works, and requires only the final layout before >publishing. My time is spent largely in manufacture and >shipping, with "webmaster" duties thrown in to keep me >honest. > >In response to the remark that a more extensive tip or >instruction sheet accompany the reeds, I can only say that >no small booklet can possibly contain and/or cover all the >exigencies, as many have been (completely) unexpected. >If desired, I can make it known to this newsgroup when the >additonal reed tip pages will be added to our website. Yes Mark, whatever happened to your famous last words of less than a year ago in some phone discussion or the other when I cajoled you for not having a web site and then when you did get one, for simply having a drop point for email: "I just have a web site in place because the net will be the place to be, not now, but maybe ten years from now...." Royce (That's off by about negative 12 years.) - - To unsubscribe to bagpipe, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" with "unsubscribe bagpipe" in the body of the message. For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 14 Sep 1999 00:00:59 GMT From: pmlerwick@wavetech.net (Royce Lerwick) Subject: (bagpipe) Re: High A trouble On Mon, 13 Sep 1999 09:53:34 -0300, "dnimmo" wrote: > >Meggwalk wrote in message <19990912220836.16324.00004510@ng-fh1.aol.com>... >>Just for perspective, listen to some of the top pipers in the world and you >>will hear that caw on high a alot. It is a desirable trait in some circles. >It >>is my preferance as well so I do not know how to get rid of it. > >Yes.........this is something I am having truble wrapping my brain >around........ > >Is it that there is so little control of it available, and as we rise in >chanter pitch that we have reached the limits of the frequency >range................. so the top pipers have managed to turn it into a >"desireable feature" rather than fight it.................we work so hard at >getting pleasant combinations of harmonics, etc for everything else and then >we look upon this other as a positive? > >I'm confused .................. (again) > >In words no bigger than "marmalade" can you tell us WHY this is a good >characteristic of a reed ? Thanks in advance. Yes, you are confused. The high A rising in pitch has decreased its inherent ability to crow. The raspy high A of the 60's and 70's was a major feature of every great band and soloists. The crow of today at its worst is nothing in comparison to this. If you want to know why, go dig out about a thousand posts from the dejanews archives. Royce - - To unsubscribe to bagpipe, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" with "unsubscribe bagpipe" in the body of the message. For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 14 Sep 1999 00:11:52 GMT From: pmlerwick@wavetech.net (Royce Lerwick) Subject: (bagpipe) Re: Low G on PC On Mon, 13 Sep 1999 12:52:20 GMT, Bill Carr wrote: >Does anyone know how I can flatten the Low G on a standard size practice >chanter? > >I don't mean reed manipulation. Should altering the bore of the chanter, >from the low A hole to the end of the chanter, have any effect on the >pitch of the low G? > >Thanks > >Bill Carr > Yeah, easy. Just put a piece of tape over half or a little more of it. They're always sharp. Especially those paki ones you got. Royce - - To unsubscribe to bagpipe, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" with "unsubscribe bagpipe" in the body of the message. For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 14 Sep 1999 00:34:59 GMT From: "Tim Sullivan" Subject: (bagpipe) Re: High A trouble Royce Lerwick wrote in message news:37dd8bca.6969750@news.mn.mediaone.net... > Yes, you are confused. The high A rising in pitch has decreased its > inherent ability to crow. The raspy high A of the 60's and 70's was a > major feature of every great band and soloists. The crow of today at > its worst is nothing in comparison to this. > > If you want to know why, go dig out about a thousand posts from the > dejanews archives. > > Royce Royce! Pleased to see your moniker turn up again, lad! Thought you'd been run off. (*DON'T* let that happen!) - - To unsubscribe to bagpipe, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" with "unsubscribe bagpipe" in the body of the message. For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 14 Sep 1999 02:35:45 +0200 From: Fred Bronius Subject: (bagpipe) Re: High A trouble Hi Lorne,

Your PM is right. It's the same like rubbing it on your fingernail. When we had our band workshop and Robert Mathieson was over, he did the same. He rubbed the reed, holding the tips firmley between  the thumb and finger, against a window and that did the trick. I would think that any smooth surface would do.

Fred
Amsterdam

Lorne MacDougall wrote:

Hi,

Not sure about this one but my P/M did something with glass at a games to
stop mine from doing it, I don'tr know whether that's what you do normally
or because the glass was just handy.

Cheers,
Lorne.

Peter Anderson <peter@bklands.demon.co.uk> wrote in message
news:937230459.1061.0.nnrp-14.9e982e21@news.demon.co.uk...
>
>
> --
> Peter Anderson
> Tad Myers <tadmyers@black-hole.com> wrote in message
> news:37DC62B4.E4A854E8@black-hole.com...
> > try rubbing the tips of the reed with your thumbnail. Hold the reed
> > perpendicular to your thumb nail and rub the tips of the reed side to
side
> > at the base of your nail. Temporary fix.
> >
> > Cheers
>
>
> That's the same tip I had heard and it works most of the time.  However -
at
> this year's Piobaireachd Society bash William MacDonald (Benbecula) came
on
> and started tuning his pipes, they sounded bloody awful at first with the
> worst crow on high 'a' I heard ever heard, he played a few tunes with the
> reed in this condition.  Then the guy sitting next to me (I do not know
his
> name but he is Irish and sits on various judging tables) said, "Just wait,
> the reed will change in a minute".  Sure enough, once William had finished
> playing the 'warm up' marches and got into his Piob. the crow stopped and
> the instrument was spot on.
>
> I have not answers, just an observation.
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- - To unsubscribe to bagpipe, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" with "unsubscribe bagpipe" in the body of the message. For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 13 Sep 1999 17:48:43 -0700 From: "Corey Keller" Subject: (bagpipe) Re: red and white WINE STRICTLY KOSHER Hey Royce, if there is an Int'l Z....... Conspiracy, where do I sign up? CK Royce Lerwick wrote in message <37dd8e1a.7561649@news.mn.mediaone.net>... >On 13 Sep 1999 14:08:43 GMT, remas16531@aol.com (REmas16531) wrote: > >>You too? Nice to hear from another member of the tribe. >>Rick Emas >>Omaha > >First the World Banking System. >Now the NG....Oi! > >Royce - - To unsubscribe to bagpipe, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" with "unsubscribe bagpipe" in the body of the message. For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 14 Sep 1999 00:09:33 GMT From: pmlerwick@wavetech.net (Royce Lerwick) Subject: (bagpipe) Re: red and white WINE STRICTLY KOSHER On 13 Sep 1999 14:08:43 GMT, remas16531@aol.com (REmas16531) wrote: >You too? Nice to hear from another member of the tribe. >Rick Emas >Omaha First the World Banking System. Now the NG....Oi! Royce - - To unsubscribe to bagpipe, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" with "unsubscribe bagpipe" in the body of the message. For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 14 Sep 1999 00:13:16 GMT From: pmlerwick@wavetech.net (Royce Lerwick) Subject: (bagpipe) Re: THE ONTARIO CHAMPION SUPREME BALL On Mon, 13 Sep 1999 16:02:52 GMT, "IMOIR" wrote: >On Sat, 11 Sep 1999 18:44:10 -0400 "Lindsay Kirkwood" > wrote: >> Q29udGFjdCBKdWxpZSBTdGV3YXJ0IEAgMSg5MDUpLTY2NDQ0ODUNCm9yICBNcmVuc2VtYmxlQGFv >> bC5jb20NCg0KIExpbmRzYXkgS2lya3dvb2QNCjc4dGggRnJhc2VyIEhpZ2hsYW5kZXJzIFAuQi4N >> Cg== >> > >Those can't be the same fingers you play so beautifully with, can they >Lindsay? It's not the fingers that are apparently the problem. Royce (Good thing I took a holiday for a few weeks so we could share such insight without my constant opinionating.) - - To unsubscribe to bagpipe, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" with "unsubscribe bagpipe" in the body of the message. For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 13 Sep 1999 21:54:02 -0300 From: "dnimmo" Subject: (bagpipe) Re: High A trouble Royce Lerwick wrote in message < >>In words no bigger than "marmalade" can you tell us WHY this is a good >>characteristic of a reed ? Thanks in advance. > >Yes, you are confused. The high A rising in pitch has decreased its >inherent ability to crow. The raspy high A of the 60's and 70's was a >major feature of every great band and soloists. The crow of today at >its worst is nothing in comparison to this. > >If you want to know why, go dig out about a thousand posts from the >dejanews archives. > >Royce Sorry Royce........you failed.............nothing bigger than "marmalade, but you didnt answer the question...............should one assume that you can't provide a three or four line simple response to the question...............in terms the newbies will understand (that's what part of this NG is all about I hope) David - - To unsubscribe to bagpipe, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" with "unsubscribe bagpipe" in the body of the message. For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 14 Sep 1999 02:39:07 +0200 From: Fred Bronius Subject: (bagpipe) Dark Island Thanks guys for the copies of the Dark Island. At this point i have enough to last me a century. And different versions aswell.

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Fred - - To unsubscribe to bagpipe, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" with "unsubscribe bagpipe" in the body of the message. For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 13 Sep 1999 20:29:51 -0600 From: sdon Subject: (bagpipe) Re: Thanks Mark's reeds are the best! I have put the set I got from him through reed hell and they are still going strong. The don't take as much air as the other synthetics on the market and they are rock solid stable. You can play a whole piobaireachd and they are still solidly in tune when you are done. I have played them in 110+ in the sun (stayed in tune and performed flawlessly) In pouring rain (stayed in tune and performed flawlessly) and at high altitude in the cold and yes..(stayed in tune and performed flawlessly) . They are friggin amazing. Don Smith lsrapm wrote: > Screecher wrote in message > news:%sLC3.17001$Ze2.532152@nnrp3.clara.net... > > Must admit that I've never heard of them... Can you post details, and I'll > > give them a try? > > > > > > Mark lives in Tulsa, USA. > You can contact him on markalee@my-Deja.com > He'll give you all the technical details about them. > Also, if you care to look at Bill Carr's site, > at http://business.fortunecity.com/newhouse/855/billpg.html > He has just put up close pictures of the set he is playing just now. > And it sounds like Bill is just as delighted with them as I am. > > Chris Eyre - -- PIPER AT LARGE (sdon@utah.uswest.net) White Peaks Pipe Band http://www.angelfire.com/ut/sdon/index.html - - To unsubscribe to bagpipe, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" with "unsubscribe bagpipe" in the body of the message. For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message. ------------------------------ Date: 14 Sep 1999 02:47:10 GMT From: zudupiper@aol.com (Zudupiper) Subject: (bagpipe) Re: High A trouble >should one assume that you >can't provide a three or four line simple response to the >question...............in terms the newbies will understand Royce is bipolar that way. He can be really pithy, like 5 words or less. Or he can run to 5 pages or more. Simple response? Muhahahaha! I can give a simple (but not very good) answer to the "crow" question. On a good reed, the crow is always there but generally you blow right past it to get a good clear hiA. If your blowing sags a bit the crow can come back. OTOH, I've had Megarity Rosses that crowed on hiG. Fixed it the same way, but weird. Zu - - To unsubscribe to bagpipe, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" with "unsubscribe bagpipe" in the body of the message. For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message. ------------------------------ End of bagpipe-digest V1 #63 **************************** - To unsubscribe to $LIST, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" with "unsubscribe $LIST" in the body of the message. For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message.