- This Forum - the plan
- Open for our Guest Host Chris Apps
- Considerations for using your chanter reeds in 96 Kintails
- F & G notes when adjusting reed
- A balanced practice chanter in B-flat
- Apps plastic chanter reeds
- style of construction...
- Reed Making/Testing
- Quality control
- teacher??
- Why an Apps reed?
- Trimming off the end of reeds?
- Blowing In
- 1950 Hardie Chanter
- Harder Reed, Better Sound?
- altering the reed..
- Reed Storage
- Why not McAllister design?
- How consistent is the cane supply?
- Newer Reed, edgier sound?
- Apps Reed Case
- Dunbar pipes
- Reed Making
- Not a question, but thanks!
- Guest Host Charley Kron - till he 7th
- up grade a CK 1 to ?
- Oiling Drones
- bores
- Heritage vs original
- Cause of Roaring/Instability in a Bass Drone
- "modern" pitch
- Medellist vs Kron TOne
- Adding Silver
- 4 mm bores and conical bores
- Old drone / modern pitch
- slight unsteadiness of end tenor drone
- Repairs and Refits
- Medalist?
- Cocuswood for pipes
- Delrin Chanter
- Reeding Preferences
- shield on Kron Heritage pipes?
- Old finish and new finish
- Shop
- Thank you
- Guest Host Jerry Gibson - till the 21st
- New and Old
- Do manufacturers compare notes???
- Bass drone tuning height
- BestTone
- Repairs and Refits
- Solo/Band Chanters and Drone bores
- Drone reeds
- Care Question
- Connical bore
- Old vs. New
- Tuning Chanters
- Turning and Tuning Drones
- forum
- Firesides are singing!
- Modern Machinery
- Gibson "Sound"
- firesides
- Graingers
- gibson accessories
- Kron Drones
- Envelope of Sound
- Thank-you folks
- Guest Host Cameron Renwick - March 31 and April 1
- Bob's a dummy (oops!)
- Seasonal?
- More information?
- Show us please
- Why belt mounted?
- any UK suppliers interested?
- Size
- belt??
- Pipe Caddy Idea?
- continued ideas, thoughts ...
- Thanks Cameron
- Q&A Forum - schedule and plan
- Guest host - Peter Crisler
- What ratio: ABW vs Delrin
- Custom work?
- Characteristics
- Refinishing
- Shipping to Canada
- Machines/materials
- Delrin Stocks
- Sterling Silver affecting sound?
- Best Sound From Poly Drones
- Bold & Bolder
- Crisler Pipes Sound Files
- Tapping drone seats-Crisler delrin
- reed seats
- Water Trap Positioning
- Thanks very much Peter Crisler
- Welcome guest host Rob Kinnaird
- different strength chanter reeds
- Kinnaird vs Rocket
- United States Customers
- Piper's Pal
- Your Carbon Fiber tongues
- Curved vs. Straight-bent tongue
- Balancing
- Piper's Pal 2
- Kinnaird setup
- Reed Bodies & drone tuning height
- Shepherd SM-90 Comparison
- A reminder - please...
- Piper's Pal and wet blowers
- Comparison to Ezees
- Getting a quality drone sound out of a band
- Kinnaird Reeds and Piobaireachd
- Piper's Pal
- What's Next?
- Drone reed tongues..
- chanter reeds - CF
- UK Supply
- amount of water for a pipers pal
- Tongues of different strengths
- tongues of different thicknesses
- Relative Humidity levels
- Obtaining a Kinnarid bass drone only
- synthetic chanter reeds
- Thanks very much Rob Kinnaird
- Piping Supply Business Q&A - Chris Hamilton and Jim McGillivray
- Your Motivations
- Growth of the Industry?
- It won't work!
- Getting started
- That next great thing ...
- Quality of pipe versus looks
- Synthetic Chanter Reeds
- older maker...newer maker
- I wish someone would come up with...
- How has technology facilitated your business?
- "In Stock"
- Supplies/products...
- Product Evaluation
- Reed Selection
- Supplier/Manufacturer feedback.
- Thanks
- Chanters
- Return Policy
- Shipping between Canada and US
- Reputation / Pride
- partnerships
- Chanters in the mail
- Your choice for the "right" reed
- Managing Small Supplier Relationships
- Nickel vs. Silver
- Running an internet business.
- Factory installed hemp?
- Model changes
- reed changes in storage/stock?
- New and Exciting
- a HUGE thanks to Chris and Jim
- Yellow Waxed Hemp -- Opinions
- Business and opinion..
- Thanks very much to Chris and Jim
- May 19 + Q&A Session - Older / Vintage Pipes
- Vintage Pipes Q&A Session - now on..
- Bored out drones
- Best wood through history?
- Mounts of Embellishment
- John Center Pipes
- Pipe identification- McLennans?
- Silverwork
- Instructors' Debate
- Reeding older chanters
- Ivory...
- Vintage?
- Marriages
- 2 Dunbar Questions
- Smoothness of drone bore
- Your Lucky Day!
- Valuation of old(er) pipes
- Cracks
- Vintage pipes of the future
- Bushes on drone caps
- oldest pipe and count
- silly question
- Feeding Pipes and Ivory
- re-boring etc
- I'd Like To Set a Standard- for antique pipes!
- Vintage pipe restoration
- Maintaining those old ebony pipes
- Brand Specs
- Thanks very much Ringo
- Q&A on holiday - perhaps..
- Coming soon !
- Q&A Plans - schedule
- Q&A on workshops, recitals and concerts
- Guidelines for Q&A
- Realistic expectations?
- Organization
- Advertising
- 501c3
- Instructors
- Instructors - #2
- Workshop marketing
- Organizing a concert/recital
- Thank you Jeff!
- Q&A Forum Schedule
- Practise Chanters Q&A session
- Derlin chanter sound
- Kitchen Pipes??
- Tone quality
- PC quality
- "Mellow" PC Sound
- "Feel"
- Tooling used in construction
- Making a living
- PC reed for a Naill
- PC and watertraps
- Dunbar PC
- Thank you Wulls!
- Teaching Young Pipers - Q&A session
- Gone To Pipes
- Timeline - your experiences or expectations
- Getting around kid's memory
- 5 year old - when to start?
- Keeping the interest level up
- motivating the teacher ?
- Youngsters
- Starting the rythm
- Music Theory for Kids
- Tune List Recommendations?
- Thanks everyone
- Thanks very much Scott!
- Now open for your questions
- Life of Delrin
- Recommended Reeds for Poly pipes
- Dunbar pipes & Hendersons
- Recommended Drone Reeds for Blackwoods
- New models, new mounts & ferrules
- DB2Es
- metal pin slides
- Workshop Tours
- Ezee's and P3's
- Teflon tape
- P2 full set photo
- Historical tuning positions
- Bass drone tuning position
- New Dunbar Chanters
- Drone tuning considerations
- pipe chanters
- Chanters
- "How do I put them together?"