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Forum: Beer Tent 12-03-2019, 08:24 AM
Replies: 63
Views: 2,647
Posted By colinmaclellan
Re: Forum activity levels

I check into the Forums almost daily. I enjoy doing that, because once in a blue moon there is something here and you end up saying to yourself - "I learned something there".



What chases...
Forum: Technique & Instrument 08-14-2019, 01:52 AM
Replies: 44
Views: 2,769
Posted By colinmaclellan
Re: Chanter reeds, what makes good, what makes bad?

Absolutely not. I make reeds in small lots; no more than 50 at a time. I fill my orders, one by one, and when I am finished the 50, I make another 50, and repeat.



It is the same with trade...
Forum: Technique & Instrument 08-13-2019, 08:40 AM
Replies: 44
Views: 2,769
Posted By colinmaclellan
Re: Chanter reeds, what makes good, what makes bad?

Could I just say that I would never, ever let someone come into my workshop and cherry pick 100 reeds. That means that the best reeds all go to one person and be damned the rest.



I make each...
Forum: Beer Tent 08-12-2019, 04:52 AM
Replies: 11
Views: 1,081
Posted By colinmaclellan
Re: To pinch or not to pinch.....

A good reed should always be able to take a firm squeeze, until vibrating closer to the desired strength. Then the squeezing can be a little lighter.



If the reed collapses on squeezing, it's...
Forum: Technique & Instrument 07-18-2019, 03:08 PM
Replies: 5
Views: 790
Posted By colinmaclellan
Re: Good Piping Workshop Videos to Share

Perhaps there are more published from that particular workshop, from memory it was in Dunedin under the auspices of the National Piping Centre,about 4/5 years ago, as I recall Robert Mathieson was...
Forum: Technique & Instrument 07-18-2019, 06:54 AM
Replies: 5
Views: 790
Posted By colinmaclellan
Re: Good Piping Workshop Videos to Share

At the risk of self - promotion! - but this seems to be the type of thing you are seeking....



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0LEVDlaCV6k
Forum: Music 02-06-2019, 04:46 PM
Replies: 6
Views: 817
Posted By colinmaclellan
Re: Nameless Jig from PM Angus MacDonald's Ceol Beag from the Castle

Indeed, that is he.
Forum: Piobaireachd 07-20-2018, 10:32 AM
Replies: 53
Views: 4,930
Posted By colinmaclellan
Re: When is a Piobaireachd not a piobaireachd

I think perhaps that judges might be well - served by asking themselves (perhaps many times) during a competition - "who played the best?" - as opposed to who played what, or who played what in what...
Forum: Technique & Instrument 07-02-2018, 07:03 AM
Replies: 21
Views: 1,487
Posted By colinmaclellan
Re: Easiest to blow chanter reed that produces acceptable results

My post and packing charge (airmail) to the USA is a flat $6 whether you buy three reeds or three hundred reeds. Hardly "nosebleed" rates...
Forum: Reviews 05-10-2018, 01:22 PM
Replies: 10
Views: 2,366
Posted By colinmaclellan
Re: Best Reed for CE Kron Chanter

I have just sent Charley Kron pipe chanter reeds for himself to play in his own chanter as I have for years so your answer (at least what he might recommend) may be fairly obvious!
Forum: Piobaireachd 04-29-2018, 02:30 PM
Replies: 11
Views: 1,801
Posted By colinmaclellan
Re: MacGregor's Salute, The Red Hand in the MacDonald's Arms

I'd be happy to send anyone who wants an mp3 of my father John MacLellan playing the tune start to finish on the pipes. He plays the birls slightly open, but he taught me to play them much more open...
Forum: Technique & Instrument 01-31-2018, 03:52 PM
Replies: 31
Views: 5,843
Posted By colinmaclellan
Re: Kinnaird Edge Drone Reed

Never a truer word spoken!
Forum: Beer Tent 01-03-2018, 08:29 AM
Replies: 43
Views: 5,721
Posted By colinmaclellan
Re: SPJA mess on Piping Press

Sorry to re hijack this thread back to its original subject - the discussion on 3/4's was much more interesting and I have to say I am also one who also got it right in the revamped College of Piping...
Forum: Beginners, Intermediate, + 11-13-2017, 08:47 PM
Replies: 20
Views: 3,090
Posted By colinmaclellan
Re: Why Logan's Tutor

You will be pleased to know that 3/4 time tunes are now correctly written in the revised edition!
Forum: Beginners, Intermediate, + 11-07-2017, 09:51 AM
Replies: 20
Views: 3,090
Posted By colinmaclellan
Re: Why Logan's Tutor

I'm glad to be able to say that I've had some sort of involvement in all three of the books mentioned. I was taught out of Logan's, which was edited and revised by my father, and my name is on the...
Forum: In Memoriam 10-10-2017, 02:22 PM
Replies: 0
Views: 657
Posted By colinmaclellan
Pipe Major Robert Liddell Kilgour MBE Scots Guards

Very sad to intimate the passing of Edinburgh's Grand Old Man of Piping, Bob Kilgour.

A finer man and piper you could never hope to meet.
Forum: Beginners, Intermediate, + 09-21-2017, 02:27 PM
Replies: 28
Views: 4,450
Posted By colinmaclellan
Re: Best tutor book

At the College I have just finished a very careful revision of the famous Green Tutor, restoring the original integrity and flow. Some items are added, included those found in a pencil revision by...
Forum: Technique & Instrument 09-20-2017, 05:04 AM
Replies: 24
Views: 3,028
Posted By colinmaclellan
Re: Varnish (and other stuff) on Pipes

I know that some bagpipe makers used to like a hard finish in order to stop pipes from cracking. Pipe Major Iain McLeod told me once that the very heavy, deep, immaculate finish they used to put on...
Forum: Piobaireachd 09-15-2017, 08:39 AM
Replies: 25
Views: 4,284
Posted By colinmaclellan
Re: Is it an "e throw"? (Lament for Mary McLeod)

You're describing a movement which does not exist if I'm reading this properly. I think it's an edre and you probably have a misprinted copy... should be lo a's.

Hard to be absolutely 100 percent...
Forum: Music 09-14-2017, 04:15 PM
Replies: 2
Views: 734
Posted By colinmaclellan
Re: Shovel Tongue

From memory I think Shovel Tongue is in Neil Dickie's Book.
Forum: Competing Pipers 08-24-2017, 03:55 PM
Replies: 17
Views: 1,668
Posted By colinmaclellan
Re: Balmoral not acceptable?

Personally, I don't get the whole hat thing. What has it to do with music? And we don't wear a military uniform, we wear the highland equivalent of a suit. How many people wear a hat with a suit...
Forum: Piobaireachd 08-15-2017, 01:55 AM
Replies: 11
Views: 2,091
Posted By colinmaclellan
Re: Foot Tapping

Not keeping time with your foot in a crunluath mach is about as "odd" as not keeping time in a strathspey or a reel.
Forum: Beginners, Intermediate, + 08-12-2017, 12:57 AM
Replies: 18
Views: 2,595
Posted By colinmaclellan
Re: Breathing cycle

Completely agree with this extremely good advice!
Forum: Technique & Instrument 07-28-2017, 11:27 AM
Replies: 26
Views: 2,700
Posted By colinmaclellan
Re: Bagpipe Chanter Reeds Issues.

Send them back!
Forum: Beer Tent 07-23-2017, 03:02 AM
Replies: 6
Views: 1,655
Posted By colinmaclellan
Re: Hard Driven

Took me about 300 times through it to learn it, and I had the music!
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