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[William McKenzie]

I played a McPhee for a while in the McC² also, and especially Troy reeds I thought were exceptional in that chanter. Great chanter if it feels comfortable...

[William McKenzie]

Finger spread is more traditional, it's fairly long. I owned an ABW and a plastic version. Pitch for me was usually around 474-478Hz. Great reedability,...

[William McKenzie]

My experiences in Bb-

• Dedicated Bb, in any regard, is in my many trials better than anything that "converts" to Bb from a higher pitch
  • Bb

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[William McKenzie]

The Infinity Bb is also very comfortable, perhaps the most comfortable Bb, that I have tried lately....

[William McKenzie]

The LA's of these two look really close in some photos like these, but in person the McCallum's is about half-hole lower. Doesn't look like much, and...

[William McKenzie]

This is interesting to me. I was looking at the Boderiou Bb in poly from Jim McGillivray but I have no experience with his (Boderiou's) chanters and didn't...

[William McKenzie]

Glad to hear this thread has been interesting and useful. I agree with your comments about the McCallum Bb chanters having longer finger spreads, I think...

[William McKenzie]

I guess Santa is a left-handed player?

Either way that's terrible coming from Walkers which are produced in Scotland itself! Oddly enough...

[William McKenzie]

This will depend if this is a one time event or something you plan to do a lot. Either long term or short term, you will need a Bb chanter as Jim noted....

[William McKenzie]

Probably not advice so much as I get where you're coming from. I'm usually pretty patient in life but after 2 interactions like this I would not be happy...

[William McKenzie]

That's a very thoughtful process overall of your band Equus (and John yours as well it sounds like).

I suppose my comments about alcohol...

[William McKenzie]

It's a good question. I'm not in a band but I can see both sides of the coin, playing with bandmates as the connection vs connecting as general friends...

[William McKenzie]

Lot of great advice already.

Bags: I've owned Gannaways, Bannatyne hybrids, Canmore hybrids, and a L&S

• I played a fully tied in goatskin

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[William McKenzie]

Partway through the pandemic I got fatigued by my built in webcams' performance and poor audio quality to the point where I purchased a Logitech C922....

[William McKenzie]

Rockets aren't made any longer but truthfully IMO they were special at the time because the market for drone reeds wasn't that mature. Years on now there...