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Look on Jim McGillivray's web site- piping.on.ca . His Aurora chanter plays between 472 and 478. He also sells, and describes several other brands of...

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My band uses Blairs. Fifteen of us sitting around playing (over little speakers) in perfect unison - pitch if not always execution. THe chanter is an...

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My band plays at 478 - 482. The P/M keeps a complete set of 466 chanters for use when we have to play with the brass and reed band. These are passed out...

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You're absolutely right, Patrick. But after 40+ years of piping I have had no hearing loss whatsoever. I can hear my watch ticking through my pillow through...

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As I said above, I've owned four sets of pipes. The first were new and not very good 1980ish Hardies. The. I was given a ca 1900 set of ebony Centers...

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These days I think it's hard to get a bad set from a reputable maker, and if one does, the maker will make good. I know, for example, that this is true...

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I've been playing for over 40 years during which an L&M developed a hole at the bass drone tie-in, as did a hybrid Bannatyne at the grommet and a...

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I use Lee & Sons goatskin bags with grommets and zipper on my 2 sets of pipes. They required the usual type of old fashioned Airtight seasoning first...

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Well, I'm like everyone above. I once had mold using a piper's pal case, and stopped putting moisture in it; It's the most convenient way to carry extra...

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You won't be sorry! I have a set of Ebony Centers, C1900, which had been in the family since the mid 1920s. I played them for 20 years in bands, but now...

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When I played a Dunbar chanter with the band in the '80s, and the Dunbar Eller I mentioned above, the high A and G were consistently sharp and heavily...

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Yo might try a Gilmour reed; they are moulded. I play these in a 1980s Dunbar Eller chanter pitching at 470 to 474.

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Kinnaird Bagpipes makes a good bore oil. Clarinet, or woodwind, oil would be fine, from what I can discover.

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I've had a small L&S goatskin bag, grommeted and zippered, for about six months. I had a medium for a couple of months but couldn't get comfortable...

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At the big service in the university hall, the whole thing: 1,1,2,2, 3. At a funeral usually 1,2,3 or even 1,3 if I'm asked to keep it short. I no longer...